Hi, I am getting this error when running cnet. I have followed the updated instructions but I still get this error. Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly? I have provided a screenshot of the problem below:

ANONYMOUS wrote: I remember this as a problem that *some* students had last year but, again, not all students are having it this year. Clearly your DISPLAY variable is set, to :0.0, but that's not the correct value. Reading stackoverflow, again..., there were many suggestions, but some are now 2 years old and don't always work. One frequent suggestion is to set: Another says set it with export DISPLAY=$(hostname):0.0 Others now say that DISPLAY should not be set at all - https://superuser.com/questions/1580610/how-to-run-gui-apps-with-windows-subsystem-for-linux No definitive answer.

Install Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store and set this as the default terminal. Then open CMD in this and run cnet. It should resolve the problem.

ANONYMOUS wrote: Great if this works. How does WT support/manage setting up the windowing, by setting DISPLAY to a known, required value, or by directing a command's graphical output the a display server before the command is even invoked? Anyone else tried it? If working well, I'll add it to the installation instructions.

I have tried to use the export commands but the issue persists, I have also tried using Windows Terminal and I'm still getting the same issue. When running export DISPLAY=$(awk '/nameserver / {print $2; exit}' /etc/resolv.conf 2>/dev/null):0 or when running export DISPLAY=$(hostname):0.0 It still gives me the same error Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?

I managed to get mine working by following this blog: https://nickymeuleman.netlify.app/blog/gui-on-wsl2-cypress The main issue was that I didn't have an xserver running which meant I couldn't run GUI programs from WSL. This blog uses VcXsvr which random stackoverflow people seemed to have a lot of success with, but there are also other programs out there.

Thank you it seems to work now

"Uzziah Smith" <23*6*6*6@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote: Thank you - seems a very good solution (I wonder why Windows, or WSL-2, doesn't actually provide an Xserver as part of their distribution?). I have added this information to our installation instructions - [CITS3002]⬈