Matplotlib WSL2 Pycharm

Question

I am using the Python 3.8.5 interpreter which is located on WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04. The system itself runs on Windows 10. The problem is that matplotlib does not draw a graph. I use PyCharm as IDE. Tell me please. how can i solve this problem?

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(np.array([1,2,3,4,1]))
plt.show()

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this is not yet supported in PyCharm: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-42827 (and they have no plans yet as to when they're going to fix this).

Answer 2

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('WebAgg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

This is helpful for me. It will start a web page in where show the picture.

Answer 3

There is also this solution https://medium.com/@shaoyenyu/make-matplotlib-works-correctly-with-x-server-in-wsl2-9d9928b4e36a

Not perfect, but it works