Have your favorite X server running on Windows.Maybe someone can write a stdio->tcp redirector in powershell, then we wouldn't need to have 2 WSL distros. I am sure you can do this in powershell but I didn't have time to research this. Just so we can use socat in Windows host, you need a distribution running WSL1.The idea is to use the ability to communicate over stdio. It will throw errors about 'grep' not being recognized as an internal or external command, etc.įollowing is a screenshot of a few Linux GUI apps running on my Windows 10 system, with working X11 forwarding on WSL2.

Also, don't try to run the above from a Windows Command Prompt or from PowerShell. Some apps just won't work well, if at all, but this situation is improving over time. Add the following to your ~/.bashrc: export DISPLAY=$(ip route list default | awk '' | tr -d ' ') DISPLAY=$IP:0.0 PULSE_SERVER=tcp:$IP dbus-launch -exit-with-session geditĪnd you might have to use a shorter variable name in some circumstances.

Mobaxterm x11 forwarding