On Jan. 23, 2022, I was led by MS Windows 10 to upgrade the WSL on my Windows 10 (20H2). It promised to support WSL2 and WSLg.
However, the support of graphic display is partial. I can start emacs using the terminal of an Ubuntu/WSL, with graphic rendering and mouse working without running an external X server, like vcXsrv.
But however, I cannot copy and paste in both directions from Ubuntu to Windows and vice versa.It makes the experience much worse than before.I was able to use the X server of VcXsrv with perfect copy and paste, as well as graphic rendering.
The problem is that even running vcXsrv, the Ubuntu/WSL1 application would not be able to use the external X server for display and clipboard.
According to the latest WSL documentation, my Windows is too old to have WSL2 and WSLg supported. But Windows nevertheless asked me to upgrade.
I also confirmed that my Ubuntu is still in WSL1 mode, and I could not convert it to WSL 2 mode.
Here is the detailed my Windows:
Edition Windows 10 EnterpriseVersion 20H2Installed on 10/21/2021OS build 19042.2486Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4190.0And the version of wsl:
wsl --versionWSL version: 1.0.3.0Kernel version: 5.15.79.1WSLg version: 1.0.47MSRDC version: 1.2.3575Direct3D version: 1.606.4DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hypWindows version: 10.0.19042.2486and the mode of wsl:
wsl --list --verbose NAME STATE VERSION* Ubuntu Stopped 1 Ubuntu-22.04 Running 1(Ubuntu was broken, when I tried to reset it to try to change to run with WSL2. I had installed Ubuntu-22.04 afresh, but the problem with the clipboard is the same.)
So my wish now is to go back to the older version or behavior of WSL using VcXsrv as X server as graphic display and clipboard services.Or just have a clipboard working in both directions.How can I achieve that?