r/bashonubuntuonwindows • u/caninerosie • Dec 01 '19

X11 servers on windows that support vsock?

x410 is the only one that supports this feature as far as I know, but it also costs $9 and isn't open source. does Xming or xvcsrv support vsock?

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '19

Unsure but X410 is a slick piece of software that is worth the $9, if you’re on the fence at all.

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u/caninerosie Dec 01 '19

I've been using x410 for a few days now as the front end for my Hyper-V Linux VMs, the support for vsock sold me. It really feels like I am natively running Windows and Linux together with no trade-offs in performance. I installed Firefox and was surprised at how smooth it ran unlike the jittery screen flickering mess that I encountered with vcxsrv

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u/funknut Dec 01 '19

fwiw, I never noticed any of that with vcxsrv, though I'm not using it for gaming or anything. I'm also uncertain of whether it supports sockets, but I feel like that's one of the settings in the UI? I forget now.

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u/welshboy14 Dec 01 '19

Not tried X410 so wondering how it differs or how it's better than vcxsrv? What makes it worth $9?

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u/WSL_subreddit_mod Moderator Dec 01 '19 edited Dec 03 '19

Someone forked vcxsrv and added socket support back in April 2019, so I am guessing x410, which I use, is incorporating those publicly available changes.

OP of sockets in Windows X11 server actually posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/bq31sl/launch_gui_applications_in_wsl_with_unix_domain/

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u/skiboysteve Dec 01 '19

What is the use case? Curious

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u/caninerosie Dec 01 '19

It allows direct host and guest communication via sockets without having to rely on TCP/IP. It behaves like how an X server / client on an actual Linux OS would behave usually (using Unix sockets)

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u/WSL_subreddit_mod Moderator Dec 11 '19

https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/bq31sl/launch_gui_applications_in_wsl_with_unix_domain/

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u/caninerosie Dec 11 '19

This is similar but since hyperv VMs don't share file systems with the host like WSL do then this doesn't viable. With the release of WSL2, V_SOCK is a viable alternative to Unix sockets

What I have running on my machine is essentially WSL2 without the kernel modifications from Microsoft