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Gnuplot on Ubuntu from Microsoft Store, can't open x11 window

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I can't run gnuplot x11 terminal from Ubuntu 20.04 from Microsoft Store. I installed Ubuntu from Microsoft Store, then I installed VcXsrv. Then I run Xlaunch (VcXsrv) - choose display settings multiple windows, Start no client (I also tried with parameter -ac), then I choose Clipboard, Primary selection and native opengpl and finish. Then I run Ubuntu from Microsoft Store on terminal write export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 then gnuplot then set terminal x11 and I get error
Terminal type is now 'x11'
Options are ' nopersist enhanced'
gnuplot>
gnuplot: unable to open display 'localhost:0.0'
gnuplot: X11 aborted.
Why?

I try to do this like here but it doesn't work
Gnuplot display on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10

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answered 2 Years ago ledeball · Accepted Answer

You don't specify, but it sounds like you are running WSL2. The post you linked to was from over 4 years ago when only WSL1 existed. They are quite different.

While WSL1 shared the same network as the Windows host, WSL2 uses a virtual network that is NAT'd behind the Windows host, inside part of the Hyper-V subsystem.

As a result, attempting to connect to localhost won't work, since localhost isn't the Windows host.

Instead, use:

export DISPLAY="$(hostname).local:0.0"

That uses the mDNS name of the Windows host to obtain the correct IP, which usually works. If not, there are more complicated export DISPLAY strings that can be tried.