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Add this to your .bashrc, .zshrc (or equivalent)

# Get the IP address of the host from /etc/resolv.conf
export WSL_HOST=$(tail -1 /etc/resolv.conf | cut -d' ' -f2)

# Set the display path
export DISPLAY=$WSL_HOST:0.0

Now you can use something like MobaXterm for X 11 forwarding and use Linux GUI applications natively in Windows!

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