Windows 10: Mad Prof again -- Multi twindow GUI on UBUNTU on WSL working

@jimbo45

Install Kali Linux on WSL and follow this guide (GUIDE - Kali Linux in the Windows App Store) to at least test Desktop usability under WSL.


They use XRDP service and remote into Kali using Windows RDP to get visuals for XFCE4. It might not be exactly what you want, but it's a step in the right direction. *Wink

 

Hi there

@slicendice

Multi tasking / windowing works but you have to run multi instances -- i.e just start the Ubuntu subsystem again -- two instances running. I haven't yet seen how to "multi Window" from the command etc.

I still can't get a desktop GUI yet -- but time for a decent Bev !!" will leave that for another day

Don't forget to connect the Xserver in each window to access a GUI application -- 0:0 is fine on both.

Here's two applications running -- Dolphin again (connected to my Linux NAS showing files) and running Spider solitaire. The NAS files are formatted XFS so no probs either -- also reading from RAID0 config so I think Ms has got their manual wrong when it says only NTFS and the internal file system of the WSL subsystem can be read by the subsystem.





Think I've done enough for one day --time for a nice glass of Scotch !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

:)

 

ubutu for windows 10

Unfortunately, no, you cannot use Ubuntu for Windows 10 in the way that you expect. This version of Ubuntu uses the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and it is only intended for use by developers. For more information on what you can do with the Windows Subsystem
for Linux, see FAQ on this page:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq

 

Ubuntu Linux on WSL will not use Internet

I have asked for the last 3 weeks for help from Ubuntu for the Ubuntu app in the store. My desktop has no issues using the Internet no matter where I go. However, for the last approximately 4 weeks the Ubuntu WSL will not access the Internet at
all. Using apt-get update/upgrade, wget, curl, anything simply comes back as "Unable to access <whatever> site. Please try later." I have checked hosts, host.allow, host.deny, all are empty except for the normal comments. I have deleted/reinstalled
Ubuntu, deleted/turned off WSL/rebooted/used disk cleanup/turned on WSL/rebooted/reinstalled Ubuntu and nothing helps. Please, someone help me with this issue before I delete windows entirely and set it up as SUSE or Fedora only. Thank you
for any help/clues you can give me because Canonical doesn't seem to care.

 

@jimbo45

Read THIS post! It might solve your multitasking issue. *Smile