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Install any desktop environment in WSL

The full download and installation procedure take some times depending on your network and hardwares because I/O in WSL is very much slower than actual GNU/Linux systems.

Requirements

  • Latest Windows 10 Pro with WSL feature enabled.
  • Any distribution installed in WSL.
  • Any X11 server in Windows side, for example, XMing, VcxSrv, X410 etc.
  • Add these variables in ~/.bashrc file:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
  • Run VcxSrv with "One large window" and display number 0 (zero). Alternatively use this command: vcxsrv.exe :0 -clipboard -wgl

XFCE in Fedora

Steps:

  • Update and upgrade: dnf upgrade
  • Install XFCE group pacakge: dnf group install "Xfce Desktop"
  • Start XFCE: startxfce4 or xfce4-session

Notes:

If there is any error like this: Failed to obtain the transaction lock (logged in as: root). Run these commands as root to clean up temporary files.

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/.*.lock

KDE in Ubuntu

Steps:

  • Update and upgrade: apt update; apt upgrade -y

  • Install Kubuntu DE (~1 GB) (Source): apt install kde-plasma-desktop

  • Optional packages: apt install kde-standard kstart kscreen konq-plugins

  • Install all Qt5 libraries: apt install libqt5*

  • Install others: apt install binutils dbus-x11

  • Remove .note.ABI-tag section (Source): strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5

  • Redirect dbus traffic to localhost (Source): Add these lines in /etc/dbus-1/session.conf file

<listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0,family=ipv4</listen>
<auth>ANONYMOUS</auth>
<allow_anonymous/>
  • Change to non root user and run startkde to start Kubuntu desktop environment. If DWM.exe (Desktop Window Manager) or ConHost.exe (Console Host) shows high CPU/RAM usage then redirect the command output with startkde > /dev/null 2>&1 command.

Notes:

  • If some packages are broken then use any one of these three commands to fix those:
apt --fix-broken install
apt --fix-missing upgrade
dpkg --configure -a

  • Do not execute startkde with root user.

  • Allow KDE binaries in Windows Firewall to auto-download some Wallpapers, Themes etc.