Mate Desktop GUI on WSL2: XtigerVNC issue

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#1

Hello Mate experts,

I found the following post about installing the Mate Desktop GUI on top of Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL2 but can‘t get it working yet.

Now I got the following issue after entering:
sudo vncserver -geometry 1920×1080 :0

vncserver: /usr/bin/Xtigervnc did not start up, please look into ‘/home/USER/.vnc/MACHINE.localdomain:1.log’ to determine the reason! -1
Killing Xtigervnc process ID 13938… success!

MACHINE.localdomain:1.log contents is as follows:

Xvnc TigerVNC 1.10.0 – built Apr 9 2020 06:49:31
Copyright (C) 1999-2019 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.rst)
See [https://www.tigervnc.org](https://www.tigervnc.org/) for information on TigerVNC.
Underlying X server release 12008000, The X.Org Foundation

Mon Apr 19 19:11:04 2021
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on local interface(s), port 5900
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0

Mon Apr 19 19:11:34 2021
ComparingUpdateTracker: 0 pixels in / 0 pixels out
ComparingUpdateTracker: (1:-nan ratio)

Any ideas from your side what could be the root cause and if yes, how I could try to solve it?

#2

Just found another post: vncserver dies immediately upon start.

Will check if I find the same stupid line
vncserver -kill $DISPLAY
exists in the start script, where this doesn’t make any sense.

Wonder how that’s possible ...

#3

Instead of trying to fix the XtigerVNC issue I will try a different approach using the GWSL Windows app which simply installs and runs an Xserver based on VCXSRV.

#4

thanks my issue has been fixed.

#5

Not even sure I ever made the step and tried what I stated before but good to know it solved the issue for you, so I expect it would do so for me too. :wink: