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Full desktop shell in WSL2 using WSLg (XWayland)

Note

If you want to use Wayland in WSLg in a simpler setup, you can try the WSLg (Wayland) tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv or GWSL) is required. You will find this tutorial very similar to the one that replaces Xorg with Xvnc. Indeed, it's pretty much the same tutorial, with some few changes.

The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc), and after that, replace the default Xorg by a script that calls Xwayland instead.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu 24.04, and install GNOME Desktop. Unfortunately older versions of Ubuntu lack some fundamental things, so we cannot reproduce it in older versions (at least not fully). Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the [Sample screenshot

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#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
    echo "usage:$0 dev output_dir [iodepth]"
    echo "example 1: Testing the whole block device. Attention: That will destory the filesystem on the target block device"
    echo "./run_fio.sh /dev/sdb fio_test"
    echo ""
    echo "example 2: Testing a file, but not destory filesystem. Suppose the target device mount on /data"
    echo "fallocate -l 1G /data/test.dat"
    echo "./run_fio.sh /data/test.dat fio_test"