wslg
Electron
wslg | Electron | |
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141 | 236 | |
9,731 | 111,957 | |
0.6% | 0.3% | |
6.0 | 9.8 | |
2 days ago | 7 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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wslg
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FreeRDP: A Remote Desktop Protocol Implementation
WSLg(Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) uses RDP and FreeRDP to work: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hopeful the experience is better than last time I tried Hyper-V enhanced linux experience. I imagine this use case is getting FreeRDP way more attention.
For years I've developed in a Linux VM on a Windows host via VirtualBox. The typing lag on this, particularly in IDEs like VSCode and Rider, finally got to me. So, I moved over to WSL and have to say; the experience is amazing.
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Wayland Is Pretty Good
This is running in WSL?
Microsoft has some wayland stuff already for WSL, though I think internally there's RDP involved: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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Need help getting Linux GUI applications to run on Windows through WSL 2
That said. Graphical apps will just run on WSL without needing to install anything. Check: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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I tried
What are you talking about? Its free forever https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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The world if Windows was POSIX compliant
Actually, you can https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
- better window management for GUI apps?
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Inconsistent Window Theme on GUI Apps
See: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/563 and other similar issues on wslg GitHub.
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Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?
Apparently, WSLg does away with the need for a separate X server, making things "easy" to use:
https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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Graphics in c++ but in wsl
There's two completely different aspects to your question. 1) How to manage libraries in c++ without dying from cringe? I'd suggest you use cmake as the build system and grab library sources directly from GitHub using this tool: https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake 2) How to get apps that run under WSL to display windows-native windows? I'm not sure, but it's probably this: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
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How to access Ubuntu's stock desktop environment using wslg and D3D12?
Here’s a thread about it. You can get into the underlying RDP session instead of just apps launching. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1019
Electron
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Release Radar • February 2024 Edition
The team at Electron have been faithfully shipping new releases almost every single month. I think they had Christmas off 🤔. This popular framework has developers writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The latest update depreciates some process events, and added new modules, APIs, methods, and more. Read into all the changes in the Electron release notes. This month, Electron also introduced a new formal RFC process.
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The IDEs we had 30 years ago and we lost
VS Code has been crashing at launch in Wayland since more than eight months ago:
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/37531
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Design Systems with Web Components
So we talked a lot about the Atomic Design Principle, but you could just use that in any system and start creating. You could have Angular components, React Components, and Vue Components. But if you notice these don't easily work Everwhere. So the solution is to use Web Components because the modern browser can already understand these, and any Front-End framework can then utilize these components. You can use Electron for desktop (Slack, VSCode), PWA for both Android and iOS, and across all browsers Can I Use.
- Settings · Rulesets · electron/electron
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How I got Wayland, Vulkan, and hardware acceleration working with Figma on Fedora 39.
I'm noticing a significant boost in performance, crisper text, and better power savings. The only shortcoming is that the window which Figma will run on will lose its shadow. This is due to a technical limitation with frameless windows on Linux.
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Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
For the longest time, building desktop apps was a daunting task to web developers. That is, until technologies like Electron made creating these apps more approachable to a wider audience. Today, we’ve got a wide array of native applications built with solutions like Electron, Tauri, Capacitor, and many more. While these are great solutions, sometimes configuration can be tricky and the applications we create can become somewhat bloated in terms of memory usage.
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MS Teams & Electron libwebp 0-Day Vulnerability
Electron patch for version 27: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39823
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
It does, see [0]. Fun fact: Signal desktop, which uses Electron under the hood, is running without sandbox on Linux [1][2].
[0] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39824
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5195
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381
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Capturing at Speed of Thought
Turns out, there is an issue with the electron window not returning focus correctly on mac - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5495. The trick to solving is to treat quick capture as a screensaver. When closing, you hide it by setting the opacity to 0 and sending hide: command to the first responder.
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$Home, Not So Sweet $Home
Open since 2016! https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8124
What are some alternatives?
GWSL-Source - The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
WSL2-Linux-Kernel - The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)
dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
WSL - Issues found on WSL
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
react-native - A framework for building native applications using React
cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows
cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.