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I am running XFCE on a WSL2 based Ubuntu installation on my Windows machine.  See WSL section on how to set this up.

I wanted to install GParted running sudo apt install gparted.

GParted is installed in /usr/sbin

However, when I selected GParted in Applications -> System, nothing happened.

When trying to run it directly from /usr/sbin, nothing happened but I saw the following error message:

Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory

Then I tried to run sudo gparted.  Nothing happened, but I got the following error message:

Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

(gpartedbin:695): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:27:48.494: cannot open display: :15.0

Then I saw this answer on the internet: https://askubuntu.com/a/981508/71690

I ran the command xhost +SI:localuser:root

Then I ran sudo gparted again ét voila!  Gparted was running on my XFCE GUI running on an Ubuntu based WSL2 installation!