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WSL2 with GUI using Xvnc

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2, and access it using VNC. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv) is required, except, of course, a VNC Viewer (RealVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC, UVNC, etc, all of them might work flawlessly).

The key component we need to install is tigervnc-standalone-server.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa, unfortunately 22.04 does not work), and install GNOME Desktop. Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the Sample screenshots section for examples.

So let's go. First, we need a working WSL2 installation.

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Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

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put "restrict_commands.sh" in /usr/local/bin and make it executable
install ts, lzop and optionally mbuffer

useradd zfsbackup --create-home --system
mkdir /home/zfsbackup/.ssh
zfs allow -u zfsbackup send,hold tank/dataset
echo 'restrict,command="restrict_commands.sh" ssh-ed25519 ...' &gt; /home/zfsbackup/.ssh/authorized_keys

Recently found some clowny gist was the top result for 'google takeout multiple tgz', where it was using two bash scripts to extract all the tgz files and then merge them together. Don't do that. Use brace expansion, cat the TGZs, and extract:

$ cat takeout-20201023T123551Z-{001..011}.tgz | tar xzivf -

You don't even need to use brace expansion. Globbing will order the files numerically:

$ cat takeout-20201023T123551Z-*.tgz | tar xzivf -

	// This playground shows you a few different ways to get device info via IOKit.
	// If you want to explore IOKit and look for interesting data I would download
	// the Additional Developer Tools from Apple and use the IORegistryExplorer app.
	// It makes it super easy to poke around in the IOKit planes.

	import IOKit
	import Foundation

	// For convient access we can make a computed getter for the PlatformExpert.
	// Traditionally this has been where you go to find all sorts of data about the

	import { writeFile } from 'fs/promises'

	const DRAW_THINGS_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:7860/sdapi/v1/txt2img'
	const BATCH_COUNT = 5
	const IMG_SIZE = 512
	const MAX_FILE_NAME_LEN = 30

	const prompt = 'bunch of carrots'

	const params = {

	# clang-format
	# Made by: Ingmar Delsink
	# idelsink.com
	# See http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html
	# Tested with: clang-format version 3.7.1

	# General
	#########

	# The style used for all options not specifically set in the configuration.

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WSL2 with GUI using Xvnc

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