Setting up Gramps development in VM or in WSL

Hi @metadata

With everything set up and building correctly, the only thing left to do on Windows 10 is the graphical display. Refer to @StoltHD 's suggestion to use GWSL as an Xserver on Win10. With that I was able to run both the installed version of Gramps and the locally built version too.

There is one Gramps error dialog on launch, but the program does run after acknowledging it: “2022-01-19 14:39:31.481: WARNING: grampsgui.py: line 538: GTK translations missing, GUI will be broken, especially for RTL languages!”

Running the local build is much slower and there are oddities like text now showing up in context menus, display refresh issues, and some hangs. Maybe you have a system with a better CPU/GPU to avoid such issues.

Good luck!

Gramps Incomplete GTK installation