Using gui applications installed via flatpak? #2601

Type of issue

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I installed an application via flatpak that is unable to start:

flatpak run net.cozic.joplin_desktop
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
xdg-settings
Sentry: Initialized with autoUploadCrashDumps: false
(node:2) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The punycode module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use joplin --trace-deprecation ... to show where the warning was created)
[2:0807/094248.192116:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/x11/ozone_platform_x11.cc:256] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[2:0807/094248.192236:ERROR:ui/aura/env.cc:257] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.

Page URL

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

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/main/WSL/tutorials/gui-apps.md

Author

John Kennedy (@GrantMeStrength)

Document Id

03d806dd-56d9-f230-b7f8-b6f583168247

Platform Id

c9161169-2865-2732-a2f7-88623d3a3d20