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WSL2 with GUI using Xvnc

Note

If you want to use pure WSLg, you can try the new WSLg (XWayland) tutorial or the WSLg (Wayland) tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2, and access it using VNC. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv) is required, except, of course, a VNC Viewer (RealVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC, UVNC, etc, all of them might work flawlessly).

The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc) and tigervnc-standalone-server.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04 and 24.04 are working), and install GNOME Desktop. Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the [Sample

Electron apps

Slide deck frameworks supporting Markdown source

Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like:

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# checck if pidof exists
	PIDOF="$(which pidof)"
	# and if not - install it
	(test "${PIDOF}" && test -f "${PIDOF}") \|\| brew install pidof

	# find app in default paths
	CO_PWD=~/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/MacOS
	test -d "${CO_PWD}" \|\| CO_PWD=/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/MacOS

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# Update the created/modified dates of PDF files to match the Notability .note
	# native format's metadata. Used to preserve date ordering of notes exported
	# from Notability.
	#
	# Step 1. Back up notability to a shared drive in the native "Note" format
	# Step 2. Change the backup format to PDF and create PDF versions
	# Step 3. Run this script against each .note file
	#

	# Batch convert all .ppt/.pptx files encountered in folder and all its subfolders
	# The produced PDF files are stored in the invocation folder
	#
	# Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16534292/basic-powershell-batch-convert-word-docx-to-pdf
	# Thanks to MFT, takabanana, ComFreek
	#
	# If PowerShell exits with an error, check if unsigned scripts are allowed in your system.
	# You can allow them by calling PowerShell as an Administrator and typing
	# ```
	# Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted