wsl
Posted December 6, 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"
Helix
rust