Re:WSL Getting GUI Support
by stjohnswarts on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:43AM
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You can but it's extremely hacky to get it all working. It's butter smooth just like Linux on WSL as long as you don't mind running it in a terminal. I use a fairly complicated DOOM emacs install without issues.
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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support
by dasyatidprime on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:38PM
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It's definitely not that polished, but I don't know about “extremely hacky”… how complicated are people's Emacs setups nowadays?
I installed the official Windows binaries for GNU Emacs pretty recently, copied my elisp directory over, and for the most part things worked out of the box, but with a few inconvenient exceptions: taskbar pinning didn't seem to work properly due to the awkward emacs/runemacs distinction, and some things related to directory layout and navigation were painful due to assumptions of a Unix-style home directory clashing with Windows's user-directory layout. No WSL involved.
Re:WSL Getting GUI Support
by carlhjerpe on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:23PM
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You can run X applications in WSL too if you install an x server on windows and EXPORT display=localhost:0 :)