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Tool windows don't work (Linux)

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Dennis:
If I can find time next week to test SlickEdit with WSL, I'll give it a shot.  No promises.  This is an untested configuration, but we did have users who tried it with earlier versions of WSL that relied in the MingW X-server.

Dennis:
I tested on WSL today.  The Qt5 version works better than the Qt4 version, but floating tool windows are still unresponsive to the mouse.  This looks like a coordinate mapping issue with the window manager under WSL.  SlickEdit is not alone with this problem.  I confirmed it also happens in the help viewer (which uses Qt assistant).  It has been reported with other applications, including Eclipse (https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1012).  A workaround is to setup a full X11 desktop environment by installing an X11 server such as VcXsrv.  There are plenty of tutorials online for how to configure this with WSL.

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