So for me the Cygwin directory is the following. But yours is wherever you installed Cygwin. The Xauthority file is in the home directory of the Cygwin user. There should only be one user in the home directory so just go to that one and copy. Xauthority from that directory to the home directory of the WSL user. Once you do that WSL should be able to run graphical programs. So you get a VPS on digitalocean and start making whatever program you decided to create.
Which is fancy speak for, they can use an X Server on our local machine over ssh. If the file has a digital signature, make sure that the signature is valid and the file is from a trusted location.
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Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. You will see a screen that looks like the following: You can change the installation directory if you'd like. We will keep the default and install Cygwin into your C: drive. Click on the Next button to proceed. The default value is the Cygwin Setup folder you started with and that should be the correct place.
Just click on the Next button to proceed. You will see the Select Packages screen that you have seen before , except that it's displaying the Categories already. At this point, you need to, again, select openssh and X11 to be installed.
So, you should do exactly what you did before. Scroll down to find the "Net" category. Scrool further down to find openssh inside the "Net" category and make sure that it's selected for installation i. Scrool further down to find nano inside the "Editors" category and make sure that it's selected for installation i. Then scroll all the way down to look for the X11 category. It's probably showing "Default" just like before. Click on the icon to the left of "Default" once and "Default" should change to "Install" like before.
Now you are ready to install. Click on the Next button to install Cygwin. This can take a long time since it's copying and setting up a lot of stuff. When installation is about to finish, you may get a popup window saying that you have "Postinstall script errors".
Please read what's in the window. If it says that these do not necessarily mean that it will cause packages to fail, then it's okay to proceed. If there are more serious errors, you may have to reinstall everything since some important packages may be broken.
When installation is done, you will see the following screen: You should check both checkboxes and then click on the Finish button to close Cygwin Setup. Desktop Setup. After installation has completed, you should have a new icon, labeled "Cygwin64 Terminal", on your desktop. If you double-click on it, the Cygwin Terminal program will run and you will see something like the following your user namd and directory name will most likely be different : You also need to start the X11 server if you need to ssh to another machine and be able to run programs that have a graphical user interface.
All you need to do is to click on your Windows' Start Menu, scroll down to the C section and look for Cygwin-X folder, click on it, and look for the "XWin Server" icon. It may look something like the following: Drag the "XWin Server" icon onto your desktop and you are all set! To start the X11 server, just click on the "XWin Server" icon on your desktop.
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