Windows 10 Python running from WSL Ubuntu 20 and Xwindows in VSCode
Steps used to get this setup working.
1) Setup WSL
In depth instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...
A) Start Powershell as Admin
B) run the command
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
C) I am only installing WSL1 so here you need to restart
2) Install a Linux Distro
A) Go to https://aka.ms/wslstore
B) I choose Ubuntu 20.04 you can choose what you want you will have to adjust future steps according to your distro though.
C) set up admin user/password
3) Install VSCode if you don't have it already
A) https://code.visualstudio.com/
B) Download and install the Windows build
4) Run VSCode from Ubuntu shell
A) Start your Linux shell with one of the following
a) open a cmd/powershell prompt type wsl
b) Find the app in the start menu
c) Shift right click in a folder Open Linux Shell here
B) Start VScode from Linux with the command
code .
5) Check for VSCode plugins
A) Linux Remoting
B) Python
6) Ubuntu has Python3 set by default
//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...
7) Get Pip and other dependencies
A) sudo apt-get update
B) sudo apt-get upgrade
C) sudo apt-get install python3.8-tk (match your python version)
D) sudo apt-get install python3-pip
D) pip3 install matplotlib (optional if you want to use it)
8) Setup VcXsrv from https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
A) after installed run XLaunch
B) In the settings make sure to tick Disable access control, or it may not work
C) Once it is launched it should just sit in the windows system tray waiting for XWindows
9) in .bashrc update add the line, use \\wsl$ to find your distro
mine was at \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\{profile}\.bashrc
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
10) Restart your Ubuntu Bash
Either run a python graphic program, linux xwindow app or python script that creates a xwindow
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