#2436 not opening plot under ubuntu20.04 LTS / WSL2

[Anonymous]

Hello,
under Ubuntu20.04 LTS on a WSL2 system I have the problem that gnuplot does not open the plot windows. as exemple:

$ gnuplot
G N U P L O T
Version 5.2 patchlevel 8 last modified 2019-12-01
Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2019
Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
gnuplot home: http://www.gnuplot.info
faq, bugs, etc: type "help FAQ"
immediate help: type "help" (plot window: hit 'h')

Terminal type is now 'wxt'

gnuplot> plot sin(x)

but then nothing happens and I need a Ctrl+Z to close gnuplot.

could anyone have an idea what could be wrong ?

many thanks

[Bastian Märkisch]

You need WSL2 with GUI support or a X11 server. See e.g.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

Update: Missed you are already using WSL2. So no idea what is wrong in your case, but it is veryl likely due to your setup and not a gnuplot bug.