# Gks Error When Plotting in VS Code

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gks-error-when-plotting-in-vs-code/36618>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** juno, vscode, qt, gr\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gks-error-when-plotting-in-vs-code/36618 "2020-03-27T22:16:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gks-error-when-plotting-in-vs-code/36618/11 "2020-05-06T15:47:37Z")

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Setting `ENV["GKSwstype"] = "100"` (in `startup.jl` to avoid setting all the time Julia is launched) solved the problem. Now nothing wrong with using `GR` as a backed of Plots in VSCode.

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