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I have installed WSL2 on a new windows 11 machine with the Ubuntu (Noble) distro. I followed the full instructions on QGIS.org to install on a Linux machine. The software installs correctly and starts - core functionality works.

However, when I use 'identify a feature' tool or digitise a new feature, the pop-up attribute form is inaccessible. I can't work out how to 'get focus' on this window (does not respond to mouse click or any key strokes) - these windows can't be closed either. So this set-up of QGIS is non-functioning for me.

Other people seem to be using QGIS from WSL, so I'm wondering what setting I have missed. I don't know if this is a WSL issue or QGIS interaction with WSL. I reported this issue in QGIS on Github when I came across it on my Windows 10 install, but there is no activity on the issue for over a year, so perhaps it is not a real bug, not replicable or just not very interesting. I stopped using WSL on that machine but considered trying again with the new machine...

I have a plugin that doesn't run correctly on Windows version of QGIS, but does work in Linux. So this would potentially allow me to use the plug in without using a dual-boot machine and all the fun that entails.

Issue occurs in QGIS 3.44 Ubuntu on WSL and the previous version I tried was 3.38 in Ubuntu on WSL.

This pop up window behaviour does not occur on a machine running Linux, hence wondering if there is a WSL setting or QGIS environment issue.

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  • Can't help, maybe use a VM (e.g. virtualbox) to avoid dual boot. Might also be worth testing the qgis-qt6 package (requires Ubuntu 25.10 Plucky or 25.04 qgis.org/resources/installation-guide) though that may not be ideal if you're developing a GUI plugin that requires QT5, though you'll need to start porting soon anyway, QGIS4 which is QT6 only I think is being released early next year. Commented Oct 23 at 20:07

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