Inspiration: https://www.most-useful.com/kde-plasma-on-wsl.html
- Update WSL
- In windows command prompt run:
wsl --update
- In windows command prompt run:
- Add systemd to ubuntu
- In ubuntu prompt run:
sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf
- Add the following to the file:
[boot] systemd=true
- Save and exit by pressing ctrl + o and then ctrl + x
- Shutdown WSL by running the following in the windows command prompt:
wsl --shutdown
- Restart WSL by opening a new terminal session for Ubuntu
- In ubuntu prompt run:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop
Select SDDM as display manager during setup
sudo apt install lightdm
During installation, select lightdm as default display manager using arrow keys
Edit the lightdm configuration as follows:
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Add the following text
[Seat:*]
user-session=plasma
[LightDM]
start-default-seat=false
[XDMCPServer]
enabled=true
port=177
Save and exit by pressing ctrl + o and then ctrl + x
Download and install this software for windows:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
- From windows open the XLaunch program
- Select the
One window without titlebar
option and clickNext
- Selct
Open session via XDMCP
and click next - In your ubuntu terminal you need to get the ip address of the wsl2 instance:
- Run:
sudo apt install net-tools
- Run:
ifconfig eth0 | grep inet
- The ip address will be listed after the
inet
item and usually looks like 172.xxx.xxx.xxx
- Run:
- Copy the ip address above and paste into the text box next to
Connect to host
in the XLaunch window and clicknext
- Modify the default settings to uncheck
Native opengl
and checkDisable access control
- Click
Next
- Click
Save configuration
and save the file to your desktop and name the file whatever you want - VITALLY IMPORTANT: When you first run VcXSrv (or XLaunch) you’ll get a Windows Firewall popup. You will need to allow it to accept connections on both the PRIVATE and PUBLIC networks. If you don’t allow PUBLIC networks you will not get a connection as the WSL Virtual Network is considered to be PUBLIC
- Click
Finish
- From the KDE desktop, click the start menu, go to
Computer
then clickSystem Settings
- Underneath
Hardware
in the left panel, clickDisplay and Monitor
- Select
Compositor
from the left panel - Change the
rendering backend
toXRender
- Check
Enable compositor on startup
- Click
Apply
(Sorry, @camullen, for spamming your page. But it might have become the place for exchanging information about KDE on WSL.)
Ok, I have found a solution for running Firefox in
xrdp
:(This assumes that the
DISPLAY
environment variable is:10.0
for accessingxrdp
.)You can also use
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
to render Firefox directly on the Windows desktop, but it is a bit suboptimal. For example the title bar lacks buttons for minimizing/maximizing the window. And quitting with the last entry of Firefox' burger menu doesn't work either. (These problems do not exist when running underxrdp
.)Edit: I should make clear that this is not on top of the
weston
stuff from my previous comment, but instead of it.