Python: running pygame through Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Question

I've recently installed and have been playing around with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows . For the most part it works great. I'm trying to run a pygame script through BUW but it doesn't render the graphics in a popup window. Instead, it seems to be contained in the bash window and looks like this:

Is this a lost cause for pygame? Is there anything I can do here to make it run?

Answer 1

Pygame runs on SDL. The SDL version shipped with ubuntu requires* an xserver to run. Find out how to run an xserver with bash on ubuntu on windows.

This question might provide those steps: How to use X Windows with Emacs on Windows 10 Bash?

*It requires something to render to, raw framebuffers and,as you noticed, libcaca, which renders bitmaps to ascii art, are also fine. Rendering to X is the one you probably want, though.

Answer 2

From the FAQ on the page you linked to:

Can I run ALL Linux apps in WSL?

No! WSL is a tool aimed at enabling users who need them to run Bash and core Linux command-line tools on Windows.

WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (eg Gnome, KDE, etc.)