Error message when opening an application in WSL

Question

I'm getting this error message when opening an application in Windows Subsystem for Linux from the terminal:

QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-adduser'
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Could not connect to any X display.

Any ideas?

What application are you trying to run? There will be no desktop with WSL as the environment runs pretty much like a container. — Raman Sailopal, Oct 07 '20 at 11:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '20 at 08:11

Wireshark will need to GUI to run in WSL and so you will be better off using the terminal version of wireshark which is tshark

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html

Install by running bash as administrator at Windows level and then executing the command:

sudo apt-get install tshark

Error message when opening an application in WSL

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