# Can't show plot in windows 10 from REPL

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 1, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342 "2022-05-01T19:23:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kzmath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kzmath/32/35854_2.png) [@kzmath](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kzmath)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342/1 "2022-05-01T19:23:33Z")

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Hi everyone! I can’t seem to get plots to show from julia REPL on windows 10 for some reason. Say I type the following to julia REPL:

```julia
using Plots # I am using the default GR backend
p = plot(rand(5)) # No output
gui(p) # No output either

```

I am using Julia 1.7.2. What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![moeddel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/moeddel/32/18641_2.png) [@moeddel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/moeddel)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342/2 "2022-05-02T07:13:10Z")

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Hard to say without any error messages.

You might have problem with the `GR` backend. Try out the advice on [this](https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl#basic-troubleshooting) page.

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**Author:** ![j\_u](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/j_u/32/219081_2.png) [@j\_u](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/j_u)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342/3 "2022-05-02T10:32:17Z")

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Maybe [ElectronDisplay.jl](https://github.com/queryverse/ElectronDisplay.jl)?

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**Author:** ![kzmath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kzmath/32/35854_2.png) [@kzmath](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kzmath)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342/4 "2022-05-02T19:55:12Z")

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Thanks for the help!

I tried the debug steps for GR, but didn’t find anything. This is what the log shows (after trying to install the binary of GR directly).

```julia
┌ Info: Emptying depsfile. GR provider is GR
│ provider = "GR"
└ depsfile = "C:\\Users\\my_user_name\\.julia\\packages\\GR\\KPElO\\deps\\deps.jl"
[ Info: Downloading pre-compiled GR latest Windows binary

```

BTW, Plots and GR seems to work fine in Jupyter notebooks, which makes this really confusing.

ElectronDisplay worked beautifully! I will use this for now.

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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342/5 "2022-05-02T20:24:09Z")

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Could you show your actual Julia REPL usage?

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**Author:** ![kzmath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kzmath/32/35854_2.png) [@kzmath](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kzmath)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-show-plot-in-windows-10-from-repl/80342/6 "2022-05-02T20:56:59Z")

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I decided to delete my .julia folder and install only Plots to check. The plots showed up without a problem! Probably my global environment had some weird conflict from installing and uninstalling many packages.

Thanks everyone for the help! I should certainly learn to keep my global environment clean in the future.