As described in title, I'm finding that virtually no Rust compiled window applications work with a setup that otherwise works perfectly for me: X remoting from a virtual machine or Windows Services for Linux to a host X server.

Using this set up I can run:

• Visual Studio Code
• Atom
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Hyper / xterm.js / etc.
• Other OpenGL API using applications (e.g.: xgears)
• Virtually anything

But I cannot run:

• alacritty
• piston
• conrod
• amethyst
• et al.

Since virtually the entire Rust graphical application ecosystem depends on winit and glutin to draw windows, I get errors like this:

friel@Ziggurat:/mnt/x/c/gh/alacritty$ cargo run --release
    Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.31 secs
     Running `target/release/alacritty`
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":0.0".
Alacritty encountered an unrecoverable error:

        There was an error initializing the shaders: failed compiling shader: