I'm sure this has been requested a lot, but personally, I see value in being able to emulate a Linux desktop on windows. This allows for a best-of-both-worlds for those of us who have to run windows at work who would like to use a Linux desktop environment.

Hi, there are no immediate plan for this. What functionality are you missing the most in the default Weston window manager?

@sprnovo Currently the only things I use with WSL are terminals and vim. You are probably wondering then, why do I need a GUI like wslg at all? It's because managing a bunch of terminals and text editors as individual windows is a pain. In my current configuration I use VcXsrv to run the i3 window manager full screen on one of my two monitors. I would very much like it if wslg could support that, so I would be able to get rid of VcXsrv and also, presumably, experience a great performance benefit from wslg. However, if wslg can not offer this feature, then it's completely useless to me.

As a point of reference, here is a screen capture of the dual monitor scenario I would like to replicate using WSLg, and which currently works almost perfectly using VcXsrv + wsl.

I'd like to usech11ng/exwm.

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top ofXELB. It features:

• Fully keyboard-driven operations
• Hybrid layout modes (tiling & stacking)
• Dynamic workspace support
• ICCCM/EWMH compliance
• (Optional) RandR (multi-monitor) support
• (Optional) Builtin system tray
• (Optional) Builtin input method

and

XELB (X protocol Emacs Lisp Binding) is a pure Elisp implementation of X11 protocol based on the XML description files from XCB project. It features an object-oriented API and permits a certain degree of concurrency.

I'm not sure if it's related to choosing a default window manager, but some applications start without minimization buttons, which is a PITA. See screenshot. xfce4-terminal doesn't have a minimization button, although gvim does. This is WSL2. I removed VcXsrv entirely, since WSL2 handles windowing now on its own. When I used WSL1 with VcXsrv, this started with a minimization button. I didn't change anything else. Do I need to change to a different window manager to get windows like this to start correctly? Thanks.

If you wanted i3, Sway is an i3-compatible window manager based on Wayland, looks like that will run on top of WSLg. But, from what I've seen, doesn't look very usable

I'd like to usech11ng/exwm.

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top ofXELB.

and

XELB (X protocol Emacs Lisp Binding) is a pure Elisp implementation of X11 protocol based on the XML description files from XCB project. It features an object-oriented API and permits a certain degree of concurrency.

I vote for openbox. Please. If I could use openbox, I'd ditch this other box I'm using for Linux and use my Windows machine exclusively. Thanks guys for doing such a good job with wsl2!

If you wanted i3, Sway is an i3-compatible window manager based on Wayland, looks like that will run on top of WSLg. But, from what I've seen, doesn't look very usable

Agreed. I recently tried installing sway. It opened but it did not work properly

The problem with sway on WSLg is that it doesn't receive all keystrokes and it's a nested compositor, so some applications pop up outside of it. It might genuinely work better to run sway under a windows-based X11 server...

I'm in a similar boat to you. I installedhttps://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm and it works really well as an i3/sway replacement. The only problem I have with it is it doesn't work with wslg apps.

While being able to run my own wm would be best, glaze is a pretty good replacement for my needs.

Thank you@NickHackford , your idea led me tohttps://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi which I'll try as it appears tosupport tiling WSLg windows

Thanks for the heads up. Komorebi seems to be faster than Glaze but doesn't seem to work as well for me. It seems unable to resize certain windows even after I followed the config tutorial. I also can't get it to handle multiple monitors in a way that is acceptable for me so I will have to stick with Glaze for now.