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    This was the problem for me even using Windows Services for Linux. Commented Oct 3, 2017 at 9:27
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    On which server did you run the export ... command? 1) local machine 2) server Commented May 24, 2018 at 4:27
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    @abalter It worked for me running it on the local machine Commented Jul 21, 2018 at 3:21
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    I spent 2 hour debugging issue with Cygwin ssh + VcXsrv because I set DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y $host. Changing it to DISPLAY=localhost:0 magically solved problem. Commented Oct 2, 2018 at 20:00
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    Indeed, export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in ~/.bashrc is the way to go for WSL Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 18:28