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Now all we need is a first-party X server...

by pawadu 10y ago

gecko 10y ago
Any particular issues you've got with the existing third-party ones? I don't honestly use them often (I just work on the Windows side for 99%+ of the GUI stuff I need to do), but I've not had any issues with Xming, even on a HiDPI display.
- Eridrus 10y ago
  It's been a few months since I tried, but I couldn't get OpenGL stuff to work with an X server. I needed it to run OpenAI's gym platform.
- nrclark 10y ago
  Xming works, but it does have some warts (at least, on my machine YMMV). The three things that bug me most about it: 1. Copy/Paste between Windows and XMing is pretty dicey. Sometimes I have to do 2-3 copy or paste attempts before one will go through. I got into the habit of hitting SHIFT+CTRL+C (or CTRL+INSERT) 3-4 times in every XMing window under the hope that one would take. 2. XMing's window previewing is kind of messed up. if you have multiple overlapping XMing application windows, the ALT+TAB and taskbar previews show the overlapped union of both windows, which makes it really hard to tell which one is wich if you have multiple terminals open or something. 3. On some applications, the DPI detection seems kind of wonky. I even bought the paid version thinking it would fix this stuff, but it didn't :(
JorgeGT 10y ago
What we need (last time I checked) is cron jobs and persistent services (sshd pls).
- hashhar 10y ago
  sshd works I guess. I can start sshd on WSL and connect to it using ssh from Visual Studio to build my C/C++ code on Linux using gcc. Maybe there are some others features of sshd you are talking about that I may not know about.
  - rrdharan 10y ago
    It currently dies when you close the bash instance: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1150 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1150 There are ways to hack around that but they're not pretty: https://wsl-forum.qztc.io/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10 https://wsl-forum.qztc.io/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10
baq 10y ago
mobaxterm works fine IME

Now all we need is a first-party X server...

by pawadu 10y ago

Now all we need is a first-party X server...

gecko 10y ago

Any particular issues you've got with the existing third-party ones? I don't honestly use them often (I just work on the Windows side for 99%+ of the GUI stuff I need to do), but I've not had any issues with Xming, even on a HiDPI display.

Eridrus 10y ago
It's been a few months since I tried, but I couldn't get OpenGL stuff to work with an X server. I needed it to run OpenAI's gym platform.
nrclark 10y ago
Xming works, but it does have some warts (at least, on my machine YMMV). The three things that bug me most about it: 1. Copy/Paste between Windows and XMing is pretty dicey. Sometimes I have to do 2-3 copy or paste attempts before one will go through. I got into the habit of hitting SHIFT+CTRL+C (or CTRL+INSERT) 3-4 times in every XMing window under the hope that one would take. 2. XMing's window previewing is kind of messed up. if you have multiple overlapping XMing application windows, the ALT+TAB and taskbar previews show the overlapped union of both windows, which makes it really hard to tell which one is wich if you have multiple terminals open or something. 3. On some applications, the DPI detection seems kind of wonky. I even bought the paid version thinking it would fix this stuff, but it didn't :(

JorgeGT 10y ago

What we need (last time I checked) is cron jobs and persistent services (sshd pls).

hashhar 10y ago
sshd works I guess. I can start sshd on WSL and connect to it using ssh from Visual Studio to build my C/C++ code on Linux using gcc. Maybe there are some others features of sshd you are talking about that I may not know about.
- rrdharan 10y ago
  It currently dies when you close the bash instance: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1150 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1150 There are ways to hack around that but they're not pretty: https://wsl-forum.qztc.io/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10 https://wsl-forum.qztc.io/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10

baq 10y ago

mobaxterm works fine IME