[blindza] Run Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  • From: jacob kruger <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: NAPSA Blind <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, BlindZA <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:32:35 +0200

If of interest - currently managed to get both NVDA and orca running alongside on my windows 10 PC, with orca voicing interface elements for linux GUI software, while NVDA speaks out the windows GUI interfaces, and, this is with ubuntu 20.04 running under the windows subsystem for linux (WSL), and, not in anything like a VMWare virtual machine - followed instructions off following page, and, had to update display drivers, update to WSL 2, and, last trick was figuring out how to get orca up and running before bringing up installed linux GUI software - ran orca -s command from WSL command line, which brought up it's settings dialogue, and kept it running in background, when could then launch linux software from new sub-menu on windows start menu:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps


Had been under impression that you could only get WSL2 running under windows 11, but, this is on my windows 10 64 bit machine, FWIW.

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Jacob Kruger
Skype: BlindZA
"...resistance is futile...but, acceptance is versatile..."

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