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A complete walkthrough installing and running a graphical Linux application directly on your Windows desktop — no separate X server setup, no remote desktop session, just a window that opens like any other.
A Linux GUI application launches under WSLg but renders as a blank window, crashes immediately, or displays visual corruption. Here's how to work through WSLg's specific rendering stack to find the actual cause.
Announced at Build 2020 and released to Windows Insiders the following spring, WSLg let a Linux graphical application's window appear on the Windows desktop like any native app — no separate remote desktop session required.
Running a Linux GUI application inside WSL and having its window appear alongside your native Windows apps looks like magic. It's actually a full Wayland compositor and audio system, tunneled over RDP, running invisibly.