📅 2019-May-12 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ windows, wsl, x server ⬩ 📚 Archive
A X server is needed on Windows if you SSH to remote Linux computers and wish to start X or GUI applications from there. It is also necessary if you are working with a Linux distribution running inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). VcXsrv is a free open-source X server that can be used for all these purposes.
DISPLAY
environment variable:$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Launch any X or GUI app and its window should now be displayed in its own individual Windows window.
-Y
. On the remote system, set the DISPLAY
variable:$ export DISPLAY=your-windows-ip:0.0
When you start XLaunch you may want to choose to Disable access control. Otherwise you may get errors like this:
$ xeyes
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: 10.0.0.99:0.0
Tried with: VcXsrv 1.20.1.4 and Ubuntu 18.04 WSL