I installed Julia 1.6 on Windows a few days ago, and had been using the Plots package with no problems (GR backend only). Now, every time I plot, I get GKS: can't connect to GKS socket application GKS: Open failed in routine OPEN_WS GKS: GKS not in proper state. GKS must be either in the state WSO…

After a little more playing around, I’ve gotten everything to work again (hopefully it stays). For others referencing this, see the above step about running with admin privileges, because that may or may not matter. From there, referencing this page , I changed directory to Documents (or any folder i…