X11 Desktop Environment under WSL (connect by RDP)

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RUN X11 Desktop Environment under WSL (connect by RDP)

Instruciton for WSL dist: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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install packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y xfce4 xrdp

sudo nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

replace last two line:

...
#test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
#exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession

startxfce4

edit configs

sudo cp /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini.bak
sudo sed -i 's/3389/3390/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo sed -i 's/max_bpp=32/#max_bpp=32\nmax_bpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo sed -i 's/xserverbpp=24/#xserverbpp=24\nxserverbpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start

and restart xrdp

sudo service xrdp restart

then run RDP of WindowsOS and connect to localhost:3390

Delete xfce

sudo apt-get purge xfconf xfce4-utils xfwm4 xfce4-session xfdesktop4 exo-utils xfce4-panel xfce4-terminal  thunar

Help

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