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7. Customizing WSL

Hayden Barnes1  
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Columbus, GA, USA
 

Now that you know the architecture of WSL and are familiar with setting it up and configuring it, let us talk about some things you can do to customize WSL.

Using Graphical Applications with X

Official support for installing graphical Linux applications on WSL, called WSLg, is currently in preview in the Windows Insider Dev Channel and to be released in versions of Windows later. It is possible to use graphical Linux applications on WSL in released versions of Windows today, though. For now, it requires a third-party X server running on Windows and a bit of configuration to point the ...

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