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Mr. #432

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fumanbest opened this issue Jun 22, 2019 · 5 comments
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fumanbest opened this issue Jun 22, 2019 · 5 comments

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How connect Linux with any X - display on Windows

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How connect Linux with any X - display on Windows

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Hi @fumanbest , in general all you need to do is run the command: export DISPLAY=:0 and WSL will be ready to communicate with an X server. For some sample instructions this blog: Running Linux desktop apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux by Daniel Aleksandersen has some good instructions and overview (Thank you for the article Daniel!).

We try to keep our docs focused just on WSL, and adding X servers right now is out of the scope of WSL. Thank you for your submission!

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fumanbest commented Jun 23, 2019 via email

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I'm unfamiliar with those tools, but in general if they communicate over the internal loopback address (127.0.0.1) then most likely you can connect them.

I'd recommend trying out if you can, and if you run into a technical problem when doing so please search online and on our Github issues page for a resolution, and if that doesn't work file an issue on our WSL github page: https://github.com/microsoft/wsl

Thank you!

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fumanbest commented Jun 24, 2019 via email

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