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Using X11 on OpenSUSE with WSL2

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I installed WSL2 on my computer, and with it I grabbed OpenSUSE so I could get some experience with a distro besides Ubuntu. I sideloaded OpenSUSE 15.1, and it installed fine and loads into the terminal fine. Now, in order to use things that have a GUI [I'm trying to get KDE], I need some sort of X11 window manager. I'm using Xming, which is probably the most popular one. When I set the $DISPLAY variable with
DISPLAY=0.0
, it runs fine, and using
$DISPLAY
returns the same thing that I inputted. However, when I run
, I get the following:
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server.
. What might be causing this issue, and how might I get around it?
Asked by Sameer Iyengar (11 rep)
Jul 28, 2020, 06:46 PM
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