Docker Desktop start 3 mstsc.exe processes

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

Only WSL2 on Windows 11 is affected. update: WSL2 on Windows 10 supports WSLg since end of 2022 as well.

I would suggest to slightly modify your testing approach: with stopped Docker Desktop, open ANY WSL2 distro and check again. You will see the same outcome, even though Docker Desktop is not involved.

If you don’t like this behavior of WSL2, then disable gui applications for WSL2:

Mstsc launched with docker, and it can't be killed

The behavior you observe is not caused by Docker Desktop itself. It is caused by the gui application support in WSL2 itself on Windows 11 (this feature does not exist on Windows 10). See GitHub - microsoft/wslg: Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios for details. When a WSL2 distro is started a hidden rdp connection is established between the distro and the rd client, which gets shown as soon as you start a x-application. To disab…