GWSL Source

What is GWSL?

GWSL automates the process of running X on top of WSL and over SSH:

• It lets you easily run graphical Linux apps on Windows 10.
• It lets you run graphical apps located on remote Linux machines.
• It provides a simple UI for launching Linux apps, managing them graphicaly, and creating customized Windows shortcuts for them.
• All this at the click of a button! No memorization of commands necessary. Easy!

Here is a video demo: https://youtu.be/S6GXBEQ5KzA

This is the actual code for GWSL. And some premade binaries (Note due to time constraints, I temporarily do not have the ability to publish the newest version on GitHub so the releases tab points to the Microsoft Store).

Downloading

GWSL can be downloaded from the releases tab or from the Microsoft Store. The Microsoft Store version is recommended.

More Information

See assets/liceses.txt to see licenses for dependencies (VCXSRV and PUTTY) etc.

Please contact me if anything in the licenses is incorrect or confusing.

Program Architecture

In case you want to contribute and/or build the program yourself, here is a quick rundown of the code.

manager.py # The GWSL Dashboard
main.py # The GWSL Service
animator.py # Handles Smooth Animations
blur.py # Applies Windows Acrylic to GWSL
exe_layer.py # Some Tools for SSH
GWSL_ssh.py # GUI for GWSL SSH Functionality
GWSL_profiles.py # GUI for XServer Profile Creation
iset.py # Handles the GWSL configuration file
OpticUI.py # Custom Graphics Library
singleton.py # From Tendo (https://tendo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/tendo/singleton.html). Edited to start faster.
wsl_tools.py # Python tools to work with WSL
build.py # Build the packages with PyInstaller

Dependencies (all can be installed with pip)

You can do this in a virtualenv.

pygame #Verion 2. The latest.
pywin32
winshell
Pillow
imtools
keyboard
pyinstaller==3.5
pyxdg
psutil

Building GWSL

Clone the source from here, install the dependencies with pip, and run build.py.

It will build to dist/GWSL_'version'/.

The official build currently runs on Python 3.7

Donate

If you enjoy GWSL, please consider buying me a cup of coffee (or a Tesla Cybertruck. Both are cool). I worked hard to make it free and plan to spend alot of time supporting it. Donations are greaty appreciated.

Donate with PayPal (any amount helps!)

You can also donate with Ko-Fi

You can also donate via Bitcoin (No PayPal fees):

Bitcoin Address: 38U4SYkb9TvD8Q1PwQ3USZ3RR6gKudVv7N

GWSL Website

https://opticos.github.io/gwsl/