I have gone through many posts after googling this and I do not see an answer or an answer that works.

I am on Windows 10 (NOT Windows 11) I have Debian 11 on WSL2.

I have VcXsrv installed, latest at the time of this writing.

I have tried many of the options in VcXsrv including disabling security but to no avail.

So here is what happens.

I have DISPLAY set to 172.20.144.1:0, my ip for WSL is 172.20.144.134/20 and I ran this command to get 172.20.144.1.

echo $(grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf | awk '{print $2}')

I have tried other 1 liners but this one got me the most success.

So after this I type:

xeyes

which is installed. And it just sits there, it does not display.

The other one liners and DISPLAYS that I have tried say Error cannot open display.

Is there any hope?

Thanx

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