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It runs the X server in the VM.

• Vogtinator 4y ago
  Not in this demo. It probably could though.
  • csdvrx 4y ago
    There's a X with sixel support: https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-sixel https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-sixel I played with this before, and I could use X11 within a mlterm terminal. I should try to recompile it with cosmopolitan to have a single X server binary both for Windows and Linux
    • trenchgun 4y ago
      That's amazing!
      • csdvrx 4y ago
        And this is why I'm so interested in Sixel support for the Windows Terminal (https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/issues/448 https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/issues/448) With that and a X server using sixels, there would no longer be a need for something as complex as wslg for most apps: you could just export DISPLAY in your .bashrc, then use one Windows Terminal tab to start X apps, and the other one to display/interact with them.
• chrismorgan 4y ago
  If the X server were running in the VM, how would it display things, or get keyboard and mouse input? You’d need to provide emulated hardware devices, which could be something like /dev/fb0 for output and /dev/input/ devices for keyboard and mouse. All that is a very much larger undertaking, and probably a good deal less useful in general. The likes of X are a much more suitable abstraction. The change here is implementing sendmsg and recvmsg: socket communications, implying communicating with something outside the VM, which in the context of GUI stuff almost certainly means an X server from outside.