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Opening Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop on WSL2

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I installed Ubuntu 20.04 (server/terminal) from the Windows 10 Apps store. After launching the Ubuntu Terminal via WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), I installed Ubuntu Desktop and did several steps to try and get a desktop instance of Ubuntu 20.04 launched.

In short, the steps involved editing the .bashrc file, installing Xming, and then attempting to open the Ubuntu desktop in Xming with the startxfce4 command. However, startxfce4 just doesn't open the desktop for me. I can get programs to open with grun and the file explorer to open with gopen though, so it is working partially.

Does anyone have any alternative suggestions to how I might get the terminal to open up the full Ubuntu Desktop? Obviously, this wasn't what Windows had in mind with WSL2, so this is kind of a reach, but any input would be helpful. Could I somehow do this from the file explorer or with a program that could be opened from grun or gopen?


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