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> The biggest obstacle will be the graphical user interface requirement of Android apps, but with the release of WSL 2, Microsoft has begun working on a project

by vageli 6y ago

> The biggest obstacle will be the graphical user interface requirement of Android apps, but with the release of WSL 2, Microsoft has begun working on a project called 'WSL-G,' or 'WSL - Graphics Architecture.' This project utilizes a built-in Wayland display server to run Linux GUI apps directly in the Windows 10 user interface. Seems to be WSL2. Interesting as I had trouble getting graphical applications to work in Ubuntu under WSL2.

XzAeRosho 6y ago
WSL2 explicitly didn't support GUI apps, even though you can do it with workarounds. Officially GUI support is coming "really soon"™ [1]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2020/#gui-apps https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-...
- temac 6y ago
  The concept of "explicitely" not supporting graphics did not make much sense with the X architecture and X servers under Windows being available. Of course MS dis not ship one, and of course X is considered deprecated by its own maintainers. But de facto it is more a lack of support as in "we don't ship or own implementation yet" than "explicitely it does not work". It works already, Wayland just takes more effort and is just way more coupled to all parts of the stacks, as usual (but don't get me wrong, this sometimes has benefits too)
numpad0 6y ago
$ export DISPLAY=$WSL_HOST:0 $ export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 $ export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:$WSL_HOST $ xlogo Couldn’t get glxgears to rotate though
- anthk 6y ago
  Install VCXSrv and enjoy accelerated X under Windows.
  - numpad0 6y ago
    For some reason glxgears insists it’ll render on VSYNC that never comes
pjmlp 6y ago
Naturally you had problems, this feature is not yet out. :) Here are the details about it, https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/contributions/611/attachments/702/1298/XDC2020_-_X11_and_Wayland_applications_in_WSL.pdf https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/contributions/611/attachments/...
- tmzt 6y ago
  This is cool. I wonder if the damage based forwarding can be supported in X as well with the X server in the Linux VM. I would also love to see this for docker/containers, possibly using Spice instead of RDP. Is Weston GPL? Will Microsoft be contributing these changes under the upstream license? Also, interesting to see FreeRDP used instead of a Microsoft implementation, since there's already an Android port of it.
billylo 6y ago
These steps worked for me. Would be good to have better support from MS itself for sure (e.g. built-in X server) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsult/running-wsl-gui-apps-on-windows-10/ba-p/1493242 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsul...
- vageli 6y ago
  This seems to be for WSL1 though.

by vageli 6y ago

XzAeRosho 6y ago

WSL2 explicitly didn't support GUI apps, even though you can do it with workarounds. Officially GUI support is coming "really soon"™ [1]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2020/#gui-apps https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-...

temac 6y ago
The concept of "explicitely" not supporting graphics did not make much sense with the X architecture and X servers under Windows being available. Of course MS dis not ship one, and of course X is considered deprecated by its own maintainers. But de facto it is more a lack of support as in "we don't ship or own implementation yet" than "explicitely it does not work". It works already, Wayland just takes more effort and is just way more coupled to all parts of the stacks, as usual (but don't get me wrong, this sometimes has benefits too)

numpad0 6y ago

$ export DISPLAY=$WSL_HOST:0 $ export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 $ export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:$WSL_HOST $ xlogo Couldn’t get glxgears to rotate though

anthk 6y ago
Install VCXSrv and enjoy accelerated X under Windows.
- numpad0 6y ago
  For some reason glxgears insists it’ll render on VSYNC that never comes

pjmlp 6y ago

Naturally you had problems, this feature is not yet out. :) Here are the details about it, https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/contributions/611/attachments/702/1298/XDC2020_-_X11_and_Wayland_applications_in_WSL.pdf https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/contributions/611/attachments/...

tmzt 6y ago
This is cool. I wonder if the damage based forwarding can be supported in X as well with the X server in the Linux VM. I would also love to see this for docker/containers, possibly using Spice instead of RDP. Is Weston GPL? Will Microsoft be contributing these changes under the upstream license? Also, interesting to see FreeRDP used instead of a Microsoft implementation, since there's already an Android port of it.

billylo 6y ago

These steps worked for me. Would be good to have better support from MS itself for sure (e.g. built-in X server) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsult/running-wsl-gui-apps-on-windows-10/ba-p/1493242 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsul...

vageli 6y ago
This seems to be for WSL1 though.