Hi everyone, it seems like many of you are having issues with using WSL, and I just want to clarify some things: The docker container was setup to install the relevant packages for development in Glayout. It also installs the GUI application KLayout to view these layouts. However, running GUI applications from a Docker container is not a trivial task. The way we have it setup to display in MacOS and Linux is by giving the docker container access to the X Server in these systems, allowing us to launch GUI applications from the container. This approach doesn’t necessarily translate to Windows, and that is something we are working on. For those of you more familiar with docker and how to run GUI applications and Windows, we encourage you to try and share, but currently we only support Linux and MacOS, and not WSL.

@Sakib Pathen Harald Pretl's container runs out of box under WSL for GUI applications. What is the difference?

I haven’t used this container before, but it seems like this tool starts an X11 server or allows the user to VNC into the container. I’ll look into it to see their approach.

That's not the mode I am referring to. See here for how to set it up with WSL: https://github.com/bmurmann/EE628/blob/main/3_Tools/win.md

I will try you replicate this. Thank you.

@Sakib Pathen can you please report back on this very soon. Thanks for the work!

I was using WSL and followed Prof. Murmann's note above. In doing step#5. Type

./start_x.sh

. But output is saying can't find Xauthority, and I need to set it manually. How to do that ? Anyone saw similar issue before ?

mypc@home:~/github/iic-osic-tools$ ./start_x.sh
[INFO] Design directory auto-set to /home/xinginla/eda/designs.
[INFO] Auto detected Linux.
[ERROR] Xauthority could not be found. Please set it manually!

That's the way to set Xauthority manually. Thanks !