Comment by swiftcoder

Comment by swiftcoder 10 hours ago

5 replies

Can you not use the X11 server packaged with WSL as your display driver, and avoid piping this all into the web browser?

Seems very inefficient to have to render everything through the browser

Cu3PO42 10 hours ago

WSL doesn't have an X Server, it has a Wayland compositor. That said, yes, you can use that. You can even run a different compositor nested so you get one single window with a desktop if you want.

  • p0w3n3d 10 hours ago

    Ah wayland. Many things changed since the time I've been using Linux in my professional work. However does Wayland support connectivity? I.e. can you display Wayland session on another computer via TCP/UDP? If not then Wayland won't work with wsl2 which is basically a VM

    • Cu3PO42 9 hours ago

      Not in the same way that X does. However, Microsoft specifically implemented an RDP backend into Weston, which ships with WSL2. So the Linux Windows you see are actually being sent over RDP transparently.

  • okanat 9 hours ago

    > WSL doesn't have an X Server, it has a Wayland compositor

    Which has Xwayland support. You can still run X11 apps.