wsl

Posted November 14, 2024, last updated February 28, 2024 ‐ 1 min read

Windows-Ubuntu interop

Access path from inside wsl in Windows as \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home\username\path
Copy/Paste does not work out of the box
- Enable it by opening the properties panel. You can access it by right-clicking the window pane header
  - Then select the “Use Ctrl+Shift+C/V as Copy / Paste” option

Setting up helix Editor

Need to add true-color = true manually in config.toml
- Else toykostorm-night theme was not supported
Whitespace characters did not work
- Need nerd font installed in Windows (Not inside Ubuntu in WSL)
- Then from Properties menu, select the correct Font
  - Tried various fonts like SourceCodePro, Iosevka Curly Slab, FiraCode Nerd
  - Finally Cascadia Code worked

Setting up `rust`

In order for cargo install to work, need to have compiler and linker.
- Fix this via sudo apt install build-essential
zellij needed to be installed as cargo install --locked zellij
To open rust documentation from inside wsl, need to set the following env. variable
- export BROWSER="/mnt/c/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe"