In container I get Error: Can't open display:

[virzak]

Windows build number:

26200.6899

Your Distribution version:

24.04

Your WSL versions:

🚀 wsl --version
WSL version: 2.6.2.0
Kernel version: 6.6.87.2-1
WSLg version: 1.0.71
MSRDC version: 1.2.6353
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.26200.6899

Steps to reproduce:

1. Following instructions from https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/blob/b836effa32844bc32bc858e8dd1c5360791171a5/samples/container/Containers.md
2. Followed the xclock instructions to the point and got Error: Can't open display:
3. Tried alternatives like

podman run -it --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix ubuntu bash -c "apt update && apt install -y x11-apps && xclock"

4. tried both podman and docker with and without sudo

Nothing worked.

Please help

When I am not using a container, open in ubuntu distro in WSL and run xclock, everything works perfectly.

WSL logs:

No response

WSL dumps:

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Expected behavior:

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Actual behavior:

Error: Can't open display:

[virzak]

Just got this to work:

podman run -it --rm -v /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=:0 ubuntu bash -c "apt update && apt install -y x11-apps && xclock"