Oh. I thought that WSL2 didn't require the XServer. I did look at the WSL2 installation page (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) yesterday and it's indeed a geeks-only undertaking at this point.
It looks like we'll be stuck with MinGW for the foreseeable future. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 26, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Chris Graves <mohaveba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From memory... > and unfortunately at this point,not user friendly. > > With Windows 10 version 2004 installed: > Open the Turn Windows Features on or off dialog > Select Windows Subsystem for Linux and Virtual Machine Platform options > Installed to WSL, a very striped down Fedora from > https://github.com/yosukes-dev/FedoraWSL > Used wsl to convert FedoraWSL from version 1 to version 2 "wsl --set-version > fedora32 2" > Logged into Fedora via the command "wsl" > used dnf to install xfce, gnucash and several other utilities > created a user account with the name matching my windows username > in .bashrc set the DISPLAY variable "export DISPLAY=localhost:0" > Back in windows, installed a windows X server: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ > Launched the X server with the display set to 0 > Created a shortcut with target: C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -u chris bash -l > -c gnucash > (when logging in to fedora via the wsl command, the .bashrc was not being > executed so DISPLAY wasn't being set > thus - bash -l -c gnucash) > Double clicked the shortcut and voila -- GnuCash > Used the file->open dialog to open my data file -- BTW, the default directory > here was my Windows user directory > > The process is a bit tedious and not something a typical user should be asked > to do, but it did work and was a fun exercise. Note that all the GC config > and AQB stuff lives in the users Linux home dir. > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:05 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Jul 25, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Chris Graves <mohaveba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > GnuCash on Fedora in WSL2 on Windows 10. Launched from desktop shortcut. > > > > https://imgur.com/a/ORivN9q > > _______________________________________________ > > Cool. How did you install it? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
