

This you can do by copying the content and right-click into the Ubuntu window.

Run the contents of this MisterDerpie/i3-default-config-alt-key gist in your Ubuntu shell. If i3 hasn’t terminated, press CTRL+C to close it. Exit VcXsrv and go back to the Ubuntu console. Thus, we need to “restore” the original config. It doesn’t matter whether you run the config setup or not, for some reason it won’t be properly persisted. When you now tab back into the black fullscreen, after waiting a short time you should be able to select your i3 config. type i3 and press enter) and you should start seeing some log (maybe including error messages). Press Alt-Tab to tab out the window, and go back to your Ubuntu terminal. Click Finish and your screen should turn black, because VcXsrv opened a fullscreen window with no clients attached. You will be presented with the final setup screen and don’t need to do anything here.

In Extra Settings, select Disable access control and click Next. Select the option Start no client and click Next. Launch it with the parameters provided in the screenshots. Once installed, in your installation directory (default: C:\Program Files\VcXsrv) start xlaunch.exe. Echo "export DISPLAY= \$ (cat /etc/nf | grep nameserver | awk ''):0.0" > ~/.bashrcĪfter you setup all this, restart Ubuntu (e.g.
