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minus-squarepalarith@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoYes You can sudo apt install firefox. And you will get a firefox (wsl ) icon on your start menu
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoLet me clearify, you cant run full desktop environments on it. You cant even run a window manager like Sway on it.
minus-squarenotthebees@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoYou can but it’s a very cursed way to do it. You need to run an X server on windows and set up x11 forwarding. I remember trying it ages ago and it sort of worked. I ended up giving up on it as I ended up just using a live boot. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61110603/how-to-set-up-working-x11-forwarding-on-wsl2
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoThat seems like its not stable and the software is likely to either be undermaintained or unmaintained
minus-squarenotthebees@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoVcxsrv has been around for ages. It’s also more documented now. I tried it right when wsl2 released.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoThe only way it could really do it would be for the Windows shell to get out of the way, which it won’t. You can with effort have some sort of abomination where you get inflicted with both UI designs at the same time…
It has proper gui support now?
Yes
You can sudo apt install firefox. And you will get a firefox (wsl ) icon on your start menu
Let me clearify, you cant run full desktop environments on it. You cant even run a window manager like Sway on it.
You can but it’s a very cursed way to do it. You need to run an X server on windows and set up x11 forwarding. I remember trying it ages ago and it sort of worked. I ended up giving up on it as I ended up just using a live boot.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61110603/how-to-set-up-working-x11-forwarding-on-wsl2
That seems like its not stable and the software is likely to either be undermaintained or unmaintained
Vcxsrv has been around for ages. It’s also more documented now. I tried it right when wsl2 released.
The only way it could really do it would be for the Windows shell to get out of the way, which it won’t.
You can with effort have some sort of abomination where you get inflicted with both UI designs at the same time…