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Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#11

Post by neogodless »

rtodea wrote: post #10

I recently migrated to Windows from MacOS and have found the following paid apps really helpful: 1. [Pengwin]( https://www.whitewaterfoundry.com/ ) - a customized Debian distribution with helpful scripts for setting up a dev environment 2. [X410]( https://x410.dev/ ) - a customized X11 Server They made all the setup really easy. I reuse some of the scripts from Penguin in the Ubuntu distribution. One caveat for those…

Is the instability related to one of the above apps? I've been using WSL2 for at least six months without that issue.

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#12

Post by Jonnax »

rtodea wrote: post #10

I recently migrated to Windows from MacOS and have found the following paid apps really helpful: 1. [Pengwin]( https://www.whitewaterfoundry.com/ ) - a customized Debian distribution with helpful scripts for setting up a dev environment 2. [X410]( https://x410.dev/ ) - a customized X11 Server They made all the setup really easy. I reuse some of the scripts from Penguin in the Ubuntu distribution. One caveat for those…

WSL2 became available outside of insider builds in version 1903 which came out May 2019.

I have not experienced WSL2 a not starting issue at all and I use it every day this year.

Also what benefit does Pengwin have apart from X server? I use the Ubuntu image and I've had no issues.

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#13

Post by rtodea »

neogodless wrote: post #11
rtodea wrote: post #10

I recently migrated to Windows from MacOS and have found the following paid apps really helpful: 1. [Pengwin]( https://www.whitewaterfoundry.com/ ) - a customized Debian distribution with helpful scripts for setting up a dev environment 2. [X410]( https://x410.dev/ ) - a customized X11 Server They made all the setup really easy. I reuse some of the scripts from Penguin in the Ubuntu distribution. One caveat for those…

Is the instability related to one of the above apps? I've been using WSL2 for at least six months without that issue.

I don't think so.

I blame it on being on the Dev release channel.

To be honest I thought I had to be on the latest and greatest to take benefit of WSL2.

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#15

Post by rtodea »

Jonnax wrote: post #12
rtodea wrote: post #10

I recently migrated to Windows from MacOS and have found the following paid apps really helpful: 1. [Pengwin]( https://www.whitewaterfoundry.com/ ) - a customized Debian distribution with helpful scripts for setting up a dev environment 2. [X410]( https://x410.dev/ ) - a customized X11 Server They made all the setup really easy. I reuse some of the scripts from Penguin in the Ubuntu distribution. One caveat for those…

WSL2 became available outside of insider builds in version 1903 which came out May 2019. I have not experienced WSL2 a not starting issue at all and I use it every day this year. Also what benefit does Pengwin have apart from X server? I use the Ubuntu image and I've had no issues.

For me it really helped to copy and paste the commands related to the X server.

For instance I had a small issue with the scale of the applications. In Windows I have 250% (recommended) scaling applied.

``` export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2.5

export GDK_SCALE=$(echo "(${QT_SCALE_FACTOR} + 0.49) / 1" | bc) #Round ```

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#16

Post by Tepix »

fb03 wrote: post #2

VcXsrv and a bashrc to set DISPLAY= automatically did it for me export DISPLAY=$(route -n | grep UG | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'):0 and on the Windows side, start VcXsrv with the 'Disable Access Control' combo box checked. this will enable X clients from other hosts (WSL is another host, basically) to connect to the server without too much hassle. that's it.

> Disable Access Control

This was terrible advice back in the 90s and still is. An attacker anywhere on the network can listen to your input devices, insert fake keypresses, view your screen, etc. Basically a total system compromise.

All without log entries.

The correct way to do this is to use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE.

One the client host:

    $ xauth -extract - $DISPLAY
Then copy the output. On the host running the X server:

    $ xauth nmerge -
then paste the output copied previously. Press enter and CTRL-D (EOF). If you then check the output of "xhost" on the client, it should only say "Access control enabled."

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#18

Post by ThePhysicist »

Tepix wrote: post #16
fb03 wrote: post #2

VcXsrv and a bashrc to set DISPLAY= automatically did it for me export DISPLAY=$(route -n | grep UG | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'):0 and on the Windows side, start VcXsrv with the 'Disable Access Control' combo box checked. this will enable X clients from other hosts (WSL is another host, basically) to connect to the server without too much hassle. that's it.

> Disable Access Control This was terrible advice back in the 90s and still is. An attacker anywhere on the network can listen to your input devices, insert fake keypresses, view your screen, etc. Basically a total system compromise. All without log entries. The correct way to do this is to use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE. One the client host: $ xauth -extract - $DISPLAY Then copy the output. On the host running the X server: $…

VcXsrv binds to localhost by default, so unless you already have malware on your system the added risk is quite small I'd say.

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

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Post by beowulfey »

Tepix wrote: post #16
fb03 wrote: post #2

VcXsrv and a bashrc to set DISPLAY= automatically did it for me export DISPLAY=$(route -n | grep UG | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'):0 and on the Windows side, start VcXsrv with the 'Disable Access Control' combo box checked. this will enable X clients from other hosts (WSL is another host, basically) to connect to the server without too much hassle. that's it.

> Disable Access Control This was terrible advice back in the 90s and still is. An attacker anywhere on the network can listen to your input devices, insert fake keypresses, view your screen, etc. Basically a total system compromise. All without log entries. The correct way to do this is to use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE. One the client host: $ xauth -extract - $DISPLAY Then copy the output. On the host running the X server: $…

Thank you for posting this. I tried many times to google how to do this and saw the magic cookie explanation, but never found a good clear description of what was happening. Much appreciated!

Re: GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

#20

Post by beowulfey »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #9

Anyone have experience with this? The only thing I miss from a Linux Desktop is https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ but it requires direct access to GPU as I understand. Anyone tried kitty with this?

I actually think WSL2 may have gpu-compute now so it may work. No guarantees though
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