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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Peter,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve just been trying mcstas 3.4 on windows 10 using the WSL and found some things that could do with being updated in the documentation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I found that if you make sure that you are running wsl 2 instead of wsl 1 you can run the x-windows apps ‘natively’.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">i.e. you don’t need to run Xming which is, to be honest, pretty awful. I found that x-windows disappear when the machine switches of screens etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The steps I used were. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enable these 2 windows features from control panel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Virtual Machine Platform (this may require VM activity to be enabled in the BIOS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Windows subsystem for linux<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Open an administrator level command prompt/power shell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Force the update to wsl 2 by default<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F2328;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">wsl --set-default-version 2</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F2328;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Install Ubuntu from the windows store.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have already installed a distro. Update to wsl 2 using something like<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><code><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F2328;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">wsl --set-version Ubuntu-22.04 2</span></code><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F2328"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fire up an Ubuntu terminal, install mcstas as described and run mcgui.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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