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Launch Windows programs from "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (WSL)

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2016-04-27 · latest 2016-10-28

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  1. …and with the new update or cbwin [1] you can launch native Windows apps from the command line. [1]: https://github.com/xilun/cbwin
  2. You can also try: https://github.com/xilun/cbwin (I wrote that)
  3. …implemented starting with version v0.7). Therefore, it can be used on multi-user computers. (from: https://github.com/xilun/cbwin/ ) So, I suspect this uses TCP & networking to do that; which does work: you can listen to a port in LXSS,…
  4. …backwards I haven't tried it out, but this project claims to offer support for doing exactly that: https://github.com/xilun/cbwin/
    comment by rrdharan · 2016-08-05 · in The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10
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    Launch Windows Programs from “Bash on Windows” – Now with Redirections
    story by wilun · 2016-05-16 · 0 comments
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    A Small Tool to Launch Windows Programs from WSL (Bash on Ubuntu on Windows)
    story by wilun · 2016-04-27 · 0 comments