X11 desktop GUI apps for Windows Subsystem for Linux
Related: Install Windows Subsystem for Linux
Linux X11 GUI programs such as geany
and meld
work great on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Install a Windows X11 server to enable graphical Linux applications on Windows as follows:
- install Xming X11 server
-
add to WSL
~/.bashrc
DISPLAY=:0.0 export DISPLAY
- To run any X11 Linux GUI app in WSL, start Xming first from Windows. You don’t have to do this before starting WSL.
NOTE do NOT open a port in your firewall for X11 if asked by Windows.
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