I can't get OpenAI Gym to work on WSL2 Windows 11.
Minimal example
import gym
env = gym.make('CartPole-v0')
env.reset()
for _ in range(1000):
env.render()
env.step(env.action_space.sample()) # take a random action
env.close()
When i execute the code it opens a window, displays one frame of the env, closes the window and opens another window in another location of my monitor. Most of the time the content of the window is just black, however sometimes it displays the environment correctly. In both cases the window instantly closes itself and opens the next frame somewhere else.
Troubleshooting i did
Xeyes
Running xeyes works just fine and as expected
Pygame
I installed pygame and wrote a minimal example to see if that works
import pygame
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 300))
done = False
while not done:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
done = True
pygame.draw.rect(screen, (0, 128, 255), pygame.Rect(30, 30, 60, 60))
pygame.display.flip()
This opens, after a few seconds, a window that displays a recangle - just as expected
Matplotlib
I installed VcXsrv as suggested on thispost regarding wsl and ran a minimal example which worked just as expected as well:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [i for i in range(20)]
y = [i ** 2 for i in range(20)]
plt.plot(x, y)
plt.show()
System config
Windows version
Windows 11 - Version 21H2 (Build 22000.194)
WSL Status
wsl --status
Standard Distribution: Ubuntu
Standardversion: 2
Das Windows-Subsystem für Linux wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 23/09/2021
Der Windows-Subsystem für Linux-Kernel kann mit „wsl --update“ manuell aktualisiert werden. Aufgrund Ihrer Systemeinstellungen können jedoch keine automatischen Updates durchgeführt werden.
Um automatischen Kernel-Updates zu erhalten, aktivieren Sie die Windows Update-Einstellung: „Empfangen von Updates für andere Microsoft-Produkte, wenn Windows aktualisiert wird“.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel.
Kernel-Version: 5.10.43
Pip Freeze
buckfae-wsl@buckfae-pc:~$ pip freeze
absl-py==0.14.0
astunparse==1.6.3
attrs==19.3.0
Automat==0.8.0
blinker==1.4
cachetools==4.2.2
certifi==2019.11.28
cffi==1.14.6
chardet==3.0.4
clang==5.0
Click==7.0
cloud-init==20.1
cloudpickle==2.0.0
colorama==0.4.3
command-not-found==0.3
configobj==5.0.6
constantly==15.1.0
cryptography==2.8
cycler==0.10.0
Cython==0.29.24
dbus-python==1.2.16
distro==1.4.0
distro-info===0.23ubuntu1
entrypoints==0.3
flatbuffers==1.12
gast==0.4.0
glfw==2.2.0
google-auth==1.35.0
google-auth-oauthlib==0.4.6
google-pasta==0.2.0
grpcio==1.40.0
gym==0.20.0
h5py==3.1.0
httplib2==0.14.0
hyperlink==19.0.0
idna==2.8
imageio==2.9.0
importlib-metadata==1.5.0
incremental==16.10.1
Jinja2==2.10.1
jsonpatch==1.22
jsonpointer==2.0
jsonschema==3.2.0
keras==2.6.0
Keras-Preprocessing==1.1.2
keyring==18.0.1
kiwisolver==1.3.2
language-selector==0.1
launchpadlib==1.10.13
lazr.restfulclient==0.14.2
lazr.uri==1.0.3
lockfile==0.12.2
Markdown==3.3.4
MarkupSafe==1.1.0
matplotlib==3.4.3
more-itertools==4.2.0
netifaces==0.10.4
numpy==1.19.5
oauthlib==3.1.0
opt-einsum==3.3.0
Pillow==8.3.2
protobuf==3.18.0
pyasn1==0.4.2
pyasn1-modules==0.2.1
pycparser==2.20
pyglet==1.5.21
PyGObject==3.36.0
PyHamcrest==1.9.0
PyJWT==1.7.1
pymacaroons==0.13.0
PyNaCl==1.3.0
pyOpenSSL==19.0.0
pyparsing==2.4.7
pyrsistent==0.15.5
pyserial==3.4
python-apt==2.0.0
python-dateutil==2.8.2
python-debian===0.1.36ubuntu1
PyYAML==5.3.1
requests==2.22.0
requests-oauthlib==1.3.0
requests-unixsocket==0.2.0
rsa==4.7.2
SecretStorage==2.3.1
service-identity==18.1.0
simplejson==3.16.0
six==1.15.0
ssh-import-id==5.10
systemd-python==234
tensorboard==2.6.0
tensorboard-data-server==0.6.1
tensorboard-plugin-wit==1.8.0
tensorflow-estimator==2.6.0
tensorflow-gpu==2.6.0
termcolor==1.1.0
Twisted==18.9.0
typing-extensions==3.7.4.3
ubuntu-advantage-tools==20.3
ufw==0.36
unattended-upgrades==0.1
urllib3==1.25.8
wadllib==1.3.3
Werkzeug==2.0.1
wrapt==1.12.1
zipp==1.0.0
zope.interface==4.7.1
TLDR
OpenAI Gym window flickers like crazy on WSL2.
