Here's that same script, but a JScript version. I then pinned that to my taskbar and it's almost seemless.ĮDIT: The answer with VBScript is brilliant. I did this in C# - basically use arguments 'UseShellExecute' false and 'CreateNoWindow' true. PS: to make launching xfce4-terminal painless and without the extra bash cmd window, I wrote a program that does nothing but start the bash process with arguments to start xfce4-terminal without a console window. It is also possible to start an SSH server in Bash-on-Linux-on-Windows and then connect to it, say from MinTTY like from Cygwin. I am very happy with this setup and use NeoVim + lots of native linux plugins even though my 'for-work' machine must be Windows. I also installed compiz and I use the cbwin project to run windows programs from my xfce4-terminal shell. export DISPLAY='localhost:0'ĭo the fix from this reddit for dbus: sudo sed -i 's$.*$tcp:host=localhost,port=0$' /etc/dbus-1/nf

I found I needed to add these to my bashrc.

I personally do the latter: use VcXsrv as my X server in multiple windows mode, then launch the xfce4-terminal (because gnome-terminal had visual issues that I didn't care to try to learn how to fix), and suddenly I have a competent terminal with font and color support.

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