Frank Meeusen versionsix

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

2020-06-19 update:

I just published a blog post with a few other options and info on decluttering Google's search results page.

Disabling "People also search for" box in Google search results

😡😡😡

Update!

This gist is out of date and I can no longer help much, as I got rid of my Mac.

Please visit T2 Linux website for more and better information:

https://t2linux.org/

Acknowledgements

This gist is just a compilation of the hard work that others have put in. I'm not a software developer, so if there are any mistakes or better ways of doing things, I'd appreciate any suggestions. Here's a list of the real heroes who made this possible:

Made possible with this reddit post.

Install

wine regedit wine-breeze-dark.reg

Uninstall (Reset Wine color scheme)

wine regedit wine-reset-theme.reg

OpenSSL Cheat Sheet 🔐

Install

Install the OpenSSL on Debian based systems

sudo apt-get install openssl


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