AFNI GUI Won't Launch

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Hello,

I just installed AFNI for the first time (Windows) using the instructions here:

https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/htmldoc/background_install/install_instructs/steps_windows10.html

I have already installed Xlaunch previously and used that for FSL without issue. However, when I type “afni” in the shell, I am met with the below error. Does anyone know of a solution? Thanks!

Initializing: X11Error: Can’t open display: :0.0
++ AFNI is detached from terminal.

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I tried to answer in your previous post here:

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Dear @JayBro94

An alternative to running AFNI in WSL with a local Xserver is to use our open-source Neurodesk project :slight_smile: It provides many neuroimaging tools (including afni) in a single software container and makes it all easily accessible :slight_smile:

You can start Neurodesk in Windows like this:

docker run --shm-size=1gb -it --privileged --name neurodesktop -v C:/neurodesktop-storage:/neurodesktop-storage -p 8080:8080 -h neurodesktop-20220701 vnmd/neurodesktop:20220701

and then you can open Neurodesktop in your browser and start AFNI from the Application’s menu:

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You can also test Neurodesk first via this link which runs neurodesk on our cloud infrastructure:

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Thank you both! Installing AFNI was still giving me issues on WSL, so I’m going to try Stebo’s open source version. I appreciate both of your responses.

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Hey @stebo85 I get the below error. Do you know of a solution? Thanks in advance.

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The NeuroDesk docker solution looks good, and I just tried the guest demo version. It’s a bit laggy for me, but it’s still completely usable.

If you’re having problems with the Xwindows display, setting the wsl version to version 1 seems to help for some systems. MobaXterm, X410, Win32 are alternative X servers that work well too.

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It looks like docker isn’t running? Can you check if you started docker, then try to run the docker command in Windows Powershell to exclude any issues with your wsl setup.

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Thanks for the reply.

So, I don’t have this docker. Would I need to install Docker as explained here? Thanks.

Get started with Docker containers on WSL | Microsoft Docs

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Yes, neurodesk requires docker, so you would need to install that :slight_smile:

Here are the complete instructions for running neurodesk in windows: Windows | NeuroDesk