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Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

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Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jun 24, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Weston implements no data-control protocol, so clipboard cannot be shared with nested compositors (sway/river/etc.) without polling Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/wslg#1512 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
X11 apps never see iconified state: WM_STATE stays Normal when minimized (taskbar RAIL minimize and app-initiated iconify) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/wslg#1511 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Clipboard: only the first copy from a Tk app (git gui, gitk) reaches Windows; later copies are silently dropped Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/wslg#1509 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Audio hangs after Windows App disconnect: Weston semaphore wait and PulseAudio blocked socket read Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/wslg#1508 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Modal dialogs (with IntelliJ) Open

bug

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microsoft/wslg#1507 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Copilot Keyboard (Japanese IME) causes WSLg native Wayland apps to switch JP keyboard layout to US Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/wslg#1505 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
HiDPI scale lost on suspend: desktopScaleFactor:0 treated as 100% in rdpdisp.c Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

microsoft/wslg#1504 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
rdprail-shell (weston-mirror): Feature request: the RAIL window updater has no compressed codec path at all Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1503 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
rdprail-shell (weston-mirror): `rdprail-shell/img-load.c` fails to compile without librsvg: stale `#else` stub signature Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

microsoft/wslg#1502 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
rdprail-shell (weston-mirror): Three first-run blockers in the FreeRDP-3 port of the RDP backend / rdprail-shell Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

microsoft/wslg#1501 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
rdprail-shell (weston-mirror): RAIL window content is written into its EGFX surface offset by the window's own desktop position Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1500 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
WSLg does not play nice with AutoHotKey - forced to go back to VcXsrv (X server) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1506 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
msrdc.exe locking clipboard (Win+Shift+S screenshots silently fail) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/wslg#1499 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
D3D12 GPU presentation falls to ~8 FPS at 640x480 due to system-memory readback on Wayland and X11 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1498 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2026
eglTerminate unloads libd3d12core before pthread TLS destructor runs, causing SIGSEGV on thread exit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 47/100

microsoft/wslg#1497 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
support for tiling wsl gui aps via dragging to edge of screen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1496 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2026
[X11/XWayland] Fcitx5 candidate popup leaves a ghost image for ~1 second after UnmapWindow Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/wslg#1495 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Unable to launch gui flatpak apps Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1494 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Popup/context-menu clicks fall through for XWayland CEF apps (MATLAB R2024b) — X11 workaround does not apply Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/wslg#1493 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Mesa Dozen (dzn) vkCreateDevice SIGSEGV on NVIDIA WSLg — vulkaninfo dumps core in libnvwgf2umx/libnvidia-gpucomp Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1492 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Epiphany not showing any texts or icons. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/wslg#1490 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
GUI apps register in taskbar but never render on Windows desktop — RDPGFX decode failure 0x80070490, persists on latest WSLg Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1489 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
WSLg falls back to software rendering: /dev/dxg missing and dxgkrnl ioctls fail on Intel HD 630 Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/wslg#1488 · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2026
[Feature resuest] add support to Dockur for Windows images Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1487 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Azure Linux dependency resolution pulls mdatp into the runtime image Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

microsoft/wslg#1485 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Self-referential WM_TRANSIENT_FOR wedges WSLg GUI session for a distro Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/wslg#1484 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
WSLg 1.0.71: GUI session freezes, then Weston becomes unkillable in /mnt/shared_memory virtiofs Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1483 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Support HiDPI force to scale in Windows side Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1481 · Opened Jul 4, 2026
WSLg PulseAudio connects successfully but audio streams time out (paplay) and microphone capture produces empty recordings Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1482 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 4, 2026
Unicode input (Ctrl+Shift+U) leaves persistent dim overlay artifact Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/wslg#1480 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
Java Swing dialogs render blank in WSLg when HiDPI scaling is enabled (-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1478 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Monitor layout change blocks WSLg Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1477 · Opened Jun 26, 2026
TranslateWindowsPath is broken when USERPROFILE is a disk root Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/wslg#1475 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Check guiApplications=false when diagnosing 'cannot open display' Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100

microsoft/wslg#1474 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
[ARM64 / Qualcomm Adreno 680] GPU acceleration unavailable in WSL2 — /dev/dri/renderD128 not created by dxgkrnl, Mesa falls back to llvmpipe Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1470 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 13, 2026
WSLg PulseAudio/RAIL audio playback becomes unrecoverable after Strawberry/GStreamer is paused Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1468 · Opened Jun 11, 2026
[Regression] kernel oops on 6.18.33.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (was okay on 6.6.114.1-1) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1467 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
On demand starting of graphical services (wayland,xwayland,pulseaudio) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1464 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Cursor Misalignment and Missing Close Button (Dual Screens) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1461 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Cursor becomes invisible when hovering over Microsoft Edge window in WSLg (GLES renderer regression, fixed by use-pixman=true) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/wslg#1460 · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Graphical interface abnormal Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/wslg#1465 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2026
weston SIGSEGV in rdp_rail_update_window via dangling parent_surface pointer (rdprail.c) Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/wslg#1459 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2026
WSLg/D3D12 VAAPI HEVC WebCodecs workload triggers Windows VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE 0x116 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/wslg#1458 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 26, 2026
Zenkaku_Hankaku key release event is never delivered to Wayland clients (causes runaway autorepeat) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/wslg#1457 · Opened May 23, 2026
WSL 2.7.3: /mnt/shared_memory missing → WSLg windows invisible ([WARN:COPY MODE]) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/wslg#1456 · 16 comments · 9 reactions · Opened May 21, 2026
No GUI Apps appear in Windows Start Menu after updating WSL (WSL 2.7.3.0) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/wslg#1455 · 4 comments · Opened May 20, 2026
Allow byte swapped clients Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/wslg#1445 · Opened May 14, 2026
[WSLg 1.0.73] ~1-2s delay when closing X11 GUI windows (regression after WSL 2.7.3.0 update) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/wslg#1443 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 13, 2026
KB5083769 Remote app security warning Open

bug rdp-client-connection

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/wslg#1441 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
WSLg triggers "RemoteApp security warning" / "Unknown publisher" via background mstsc.exe /wslg connection Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/wslg#1440 · 6 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2026

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