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Xephyr does not work (window never appears) under WSLg #154

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Description

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Environment

Windows build number: 21364
Your Distribution version: Debian sid
Your WSLg version: 1.0.19

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install Xephyr (on Debian, sudo apt install xserver-xephyr )

  2. Start a Xephyr session as follows:

Xephyr -ac -screen 1024x768 -br -reset -terminate :1

  1. Observe that Xephyr never terminates but no window appears.

WSL logs:

versions.txt
weston.log
pulseaudio.log

Expected behavior

Xephyr window containing nested X session should appear, per the instructions found here:

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xephyr.html

Actual behavior

No Xephyr window appears, and nothing appears to be logged. Xephyr executable remains until killed.

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