Announcement: WSL2 support

[mviereck]

The current master version of x11docker adds support for WSL2 on MS Windows.
runx has been updated for WSL2 support, too. (runx ticket #2)

Please check out if it works as expected and report any issues here.
WSL2 does not run in my Windows VM, so I cannot check it out myself.

Note: In WSL2 x11docker defaults to use the native linux docker within WSL2. If you want to use MobyVM / docker-for-windows instead, please add option --mobyvm.

(In WSL1, Cygwin and MSYS2 x11docker defaults to MobyVM because native linux docker is not supported there.)

[Jawabiscuit]

Hello again! 😄 I didn't get x11docker running on WSL2 the first try.

x11docker.log

Here is a screenshot of docker run -e DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" x11docker/xfce xfce4-terminal

[mviereck]

Thank you for the test!

How did you run X beforehand?
With runx or somehow different?
Did you use the same X session for the provided log and your docker run example?

x11docker.log shows some X authentication issues, even before the container is started, e.g. xwininfo: error: unable to open display "172.26.64.1:0". This would mean that your docker run command should have failed, too, if you've provided the same X setup.

Please try:

runx -- x11docker x11docker/xfce xfce4-terminal

That is likely to fail because you do not have xauth installed. runx should show a warning and recommend to either installxauth or to use option --no-auth. Does it show such a message?

If that fails as expected, please try

runx --no-auth -- x11docker x11docker/xfce xfce4-terminal

The first test should work if you install package xauth.

[mviereck]

@Jawabiscuit Could you please run the tests noted above?
I'd like to publish a new release including WSL2 support.

[Jawabiscuit]

No problem, I'll get to it soon.

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[eine]

As commented in mviereck/runx#2, latest master branches work on MSYS2 for me, but not on Cygwin or WSL1. @mviereck should we discuss it here or there?

[mviereck]

should we discuss it here or there?

Please open new tickets as said in mviereck/runx#2 so we have WSL2 only in this thread.

[mviereck]

@Jawabiscuit Could you please run a new test?

The latest release v6.6.1 contains some fixes based on tests by @eine .
x11docker has a new option --runx, you don't need to run runx manually anymore.

Could you please try in WSL2:

x11docker --runx x11docker/xfce xfce4-terminal

[mviereck]

Closing due to inactivity.
WSL2 support is considered to be experimental only, a message is shown.