In my opinion, the simplest option is MobaXterm which is the tool used in this article. If we Google ‘’x server for windows’’, many options show up. However, Bash of WSL does not support X Server. The X server is the graphic environment we want to run. With this technology, it becomes possible to run VS Code with WSL. The remote X client application makes a connection to the local X server and provides the graphic interface.
Run X client application on the remote Linux machine.Therefore, to use our local machine, e.g., a laptop, to connect to a remote Linux machine, we need: X Window System uses a client-server model to enable remote computing with graphic interface. In the Linux world, X Window System plays the role which provides the basic framework for building GUI environments. In addition to Windows 10 and VS Code, we need X Server and X Client to make VS Code work with WSL. Although the title of this article is ‘’ Using Visual Studio Code with Windows Subsystem for Linux’’, the method described here also works for other GUI applications. This article provides a step-by-step instruction to configure WSL so we can run VS Code on Linux with WSL. It is even possible we run Linux applications with GUI with WSL. We are also able to run Bash shell scripts and Linux applications on it. With WSL, we can install most major Linux distributions from the Windows Store. The WSL enables the ability for a developer to run Linux environment on Windows 10 without the overhead of a virtual machine. With the combination of these two, it opens a new way for a software developer writing code. Since Microsoft stated embracing open source, two great features, in my opinion, Microsoft released are:
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