On 19/03/2020 12:43, Clement Degut wrote:
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> I have been recently trying to use ccp4 in windows subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu distribution), everything i
> tried run perfectly smoothly, including graphical interfaces.
I am pleasantly surprised - when I tried that (some time ago) the graphics performance as terrible. Perhaps
you have better hardware.
> My only problem is with coot (latest build), the interface is working fine, as well as the 3D graphical. The
> only problem is that the graphical window is offset from the rest of the UI (see screenshot).
> So although it looks like everything would work smoothly it's not really usable.
What, would you say, is the biggest problem?
> I guess it comes from the absence of GPU access under WSL2 and so no proper display driver, but does anyone
> had this problem? (and managed to solve it).
FWIW, I have not seen this problem before (and don't know how to fix it)
It seems to me an X server problem (or configuration issue). Have you tweaked or disabled the native OpenGL
options on the X server?
> Would be very useful for people working from home without a full linux dual boot.
Hmm.
> In a more general note, it seems that WSL2 will be able to replace windows specific build very effectively
> in the very near future.
For everything other than OpenGL graphics (and maybe the Cloud would also be problematic), yes, it seems so.
Paul.
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