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Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

32 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 5 stories, 27 comments · first 2021-04-21 · latest 2026-04-07

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  1. Microsoft's WSL2 GUI integration works based on Wayland (and XWayland): https://github.com/microsoft/wslg Rather than going fully protocol-based (like Waypipe), they used Weston to render to RDP. Using RDP's "remote apps" functionality,…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2026-01-27 · in Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
  2. …overflow.com/questions/57580420/wsl-using-a-wsl... 2. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5118 3. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/22
    comment by nicoty · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  3. …doesn't handle pasting into Linux apps without introducing Windows CRs. I opened an issue for this https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1326 but it hasn't gotten a reply. Also, systemd is still pretty sketchy. It takes over 2 minutes…
    comment by nickjj · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  4. …converts it but that's a big pain to hit compared to "p". I opened a bug report, let's see: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1326
    comment by nickjj · 2025-04-21 · in The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
  5. …actually a problem with ultra-wide screens and there is no simple resolution for this and I gave up https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/590
    comment by eapotapov · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  6. …the actual window is smaller than it appears. Did you encounter the same issue? Related issues: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1008 https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/633
    comment by eapotapov · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
  7. …all form factors is Android/Chrome OS. But, people complain about how limited Chrome OS is. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg?tab=readme-ov-file#wslg-ar... [2] https://www.irrlicht3d.org/index.php?t=1626
    comment by kuhsaft · 2024-10-08 · in Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
  8. …is Microsoft's first-party solution. It's interesting because it uses RDP as the display layer. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by gorkish · 2024-10-05 · in X11 Forwarding and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (2021)
  9. …know it only supports basic tapping/clicking for GUI applications and not multi-touch or gestures. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/737
    comment by treesknees · 2024-07-16 · in A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
  10. They've hidden a lot of the complexity, but it seems they use RDP to actually display in Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by kbolino · 2024-06-11 · in Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs
  11. WSLg(Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) uses RDP and FreeRDP to work: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hopeful the experience is better than last time I tried Hyper-V enhanced linux experience. I imagine this…
    comment by Rapzid · 2023-09-28 · in FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation
  12. …Microsoft has some wayland stuff already for WSL, though I think internally there's RDP involved: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by zerocrates · 2023-06-30 · in Wayland is pretty good
  13. Apparently, WSLg does away with the need for a separate X server, making things easy to use: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg The "Apparently" is there because it's not something I've tried myself (I'm a Linux desktop user), instead it's…
    comment by justinclift · 2023-05-03 · in Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?
  14. …run into an edge case, spend hours digging at it, and leave curled up into a fetal position. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by pridkett · 2022-10-16 · in VS Code Org Mode
  15. The developer channel version of WSL2 comes with Wayland, which might help push adoption a bit. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by tyingq · 2022-02-07 · in Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
  16. …display server built-in, is perhaps a driver. The github page still says it requires Windows 11: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg Though I suppose it's possible they've also pushed it to the insider builds for Windows 10.
    comment by tyingq · 2021-12-16 · in Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
  17. How so? https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#pre-requisites It used to be on the insider preview, but that has moved to 11.
    comment by 2ion · 2021-11-06 · in Windows 11 upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements
  18. …apps via WSLg. So how about nailing 2021 as year of Linux desktop? :) Brought to you by Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by jve · 2021-10-22 · in Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition
  19. …5: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker 6: https://katacontainers.io 7: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg 8: https://xdc2020.x.org/event/9/contributions/611/attachments/702/1298/XDC2020_-_X11_and_Wayland_applications_in_WSL.pdf
    comment by easygenes · 2021-10-11 · in Harden and secure browsers in containers, with GUI
  20. Now that WSLg support ( https://github.com/microsoft/wslg ) has landed in a release version of windows, another approach to this is to create new WSL distros for specific tasks, and run browsers from them. Whilst it's a VM, I've found…
    comment by raesene9 · 2021-10-11 · in Harden and secure browsers in containers, with GUI
  21. …new things, but wslg is not one of them. There’s a feature request for including it foe Windows 10: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/414
    comment by jpalomaki · 2021-10-10 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
  22. …programs, although I understand this could be different in Windows 11 WSLg solves this, apparently https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
    comment by test1235 · 2021-10-10 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
  23. You can update to Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI while still using Windows 10, as described at https://github.com/microsoft/wslg . Emacs and gnuplot work fine, and that's all I need.
    comment by Bostonian · 2021-10-07 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
  24. It's so weird to see Teams on the Windows Desktop next to a Linux Desktop Window... [0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/raw/main/docs/WSLg_Integra...
    comment by hansoolo · 2021-09-10 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
  25. For those that don't know, this will only be available in Windows 11, see https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/347#issuecomment-87...
    comment by mathnode · 2021-09-10 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
  26. …on how to build and deploy a private system distro please see our build instructions. [0] [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#wslg-system-distro
    comment by disk0 · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
  27. …MacOS if Microsoft released a fully-supported Linux distro (with or without Win32 support). [0] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#wslg-architecture-overview
    comment by TimTheTinker · 2021-04-21 · in Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux