Cannot open display :0. Installed wsl on W11 and try to start grafical application kstars but say Cannot open display :0

[twinkeldonk]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1848]

WSL Version

WSL version: 2.3.24.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

No response

Distro Version

Linux version 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (root@941d701f84f1) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #1 SMP Fri Mar 29 23:14:13 UTC 2024

Other Software

kstars-bleeding-data/noble,now 6:3.7.3+202410080857~ubuntu24.04.1 all [installed,automatic]

Repro Steps

After setting up WSL I instaalled kstars with the instruction on https://www.indilib.org/forum/general/14409-instructions-to-run-kstars-ekos-indi-under-windows-wsl.html .
So mainly with
Installation Kstars:
WSL command prompt > sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa
WSL command prompt > sudo apt-get update
WSL command prompt > sudo apt-get install indi-full gsc kstars-bleeding

After that the starticon on my desktopp was pointing to

weston.log.txt

But starting that give no result.

The logs say this
cat /mnt/wslg/versions.txt

WSLg ( x86_64 ): 1.0.65+Branch.main.Sha.25d8697d5049e1994baa6ba542f507347b608ad4
Built at: Wed Aug 14 21:11:14 UTC 2024
Mariner: VERSION="2.0.20240609"
DirectX-Headers:
mesa:
pulseaudio: 6f045ff0dca233a939a2aba815f84d177e294122
FreeRDP: c4030980b29322a9cb2190711a5fadeeeb8b6a33
weston: f227edd681479ec3cb2290a25d84d2d3462aebfa

wslg [ /mnt/c/Users/WIL_VREE ]$ ls -la /tmp/.X11-unix
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 40 Oct 19 23:05 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 80 Oct 19 23:05 ..
wslg [ /mnt/c/Users/WIL_VREE ]$

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wil_vree@BMAX1:$ ls -la /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 40 Oct 19 23:05 .
drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 300 Oct 19 23:05 ..
wil_vree@BMAX1:$

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and attached is the weston log file

Expected Behavior

I expect to see the screen of the kstars app. Just like that happens on my other windows pc with wsl installed.

Actual Behavior

When I click the icon there is only a short pause and the no sign anymore.

When I then go to the wsl prompt and try to start kstars by typing it in, I get the error Cannot open display.
But I do noit know if this is supposed to work this way anyhow.

Diagnostic Logs

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[twinkeldonk]

WslLogs-2024-10-19_23-35-27.zip

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Diagnostic information

Detected appx version: 2.3.24.0

[clouds56]

See microsoft/wslg#1291 (comment), and this https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/wiki/Diagnosing-%22cannot-open-display%22-type-issues-with-WSLg
The wiki doesn't mention wayland, and it's necessary if your gui start slowly.