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axuslast Tuesday at 9:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Speaking of X11 and Windows, any recommended Windows Xservers to add to this StackOverflow post? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61110603/how-to-set-up-w...

I hadn't heard of WSLg, vcxsrv was the best I could do for free.


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okanatlast Tuesday at 10:50 PM

With WSLg, Windows runs a native Wayland server under Windows and it will use Xwayland to display X11 apps. You should be able to use any GUI app without any extra setup. You should double check the environment variables though. Sometimes .bashrc etc. or WSL's systemd support interferes with them.