How to start X windows inside "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows"

Question

After installing the new feature (still "Beta") called Bash on Ubuntu on Windows that is a feature subset of Windows 10 Anniversary edition, I get the following message when trying to start X-Windows using startx :

What do I need to tweak / configure in order for X-Windows to launch?

I noticed that xauth was already installed, however I had to install the rest of the framework as follows :

apt-get install xorg openbox

Solution

You can install Xming.

Use export DISPLAY=:0 or export DISPLAY=localhost:0 and run your app from the console.

Comments

[Kraang Prime]

@Zanna thank you for the correction. I missed that misspelling of windows (prior : widnows lol).

[Zanna]

:) it's nothing! Hope someone can answer :)

[WinEunuuchs2Unix]

@KraangPrime can you update us on your progress with x-windows on Windows 10 WSL?

[Kraang Prime]

@WinEunuuchs2Unix - I haven't tried anything recently. I did notice it is finally available in the Windows Store aka.ms/wslstore [ if on windows that link will prompt to open the Store and display the Linux subsystems available ] after running Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux in PowerShell as Administrator

[WinEunuuchs2Unix]

+1 but there are other x-windows packages that can be used and you can improve your answer with references to them as well.