#+title: windoze tips
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#+pubdate: <2026-08-05>
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#+caption: windows alacritty + wsl emacs
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Windows is truly terrible, here's some snippets of how I'm coping. It's been 6 months so just trying to recall things:

- https://scoop.sh/
- WSL2 with [[http://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel][kernel]] built with options for vcan + native docker (IE /not/ the host docker integration thing)
- tui emacs + alacritty
    - specifically NOT gui emacs, the wayland weston bridge thing is kinda buggy
    - sanity: make sure alacritty is using your GPU drivers and not EG intel fallback ones
- start menu -> performance -> "adjust the appearance and performance options"
    - uncheck everything except "smooth edges of screen fonts"

{{{foldstart(.wslconfig)}}}
#+begin_src text
[wsl2]

# don't auto shutdown
vmIdleTimeout=-1

memory=22GB

# was attempting to get udp forwarding with mirrored, didn't appear to work
# networkingMode=mirrored

debugConsole=true

# networkingMode = bridged

vmSwitch = Default Switch

# build file from kernel:
kernel=C:\\Users\\user\\vmlinux2
#+end_src
{{{foldend}}}

** How can I fwd usb hardware?

https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/releases

from an admin cmd.exe:

: usbipd list
: usbipd attach --wsl --hardware-id 0c72:000c
: usbipd attach --wsl --busid 2-11

** THE CURSOR IS GONE

Restart weston. From windows:

: wsl --system -d Debian pkill weston

** path compatibility

#+begin_src bash
lpath() {
    # 'C:\Users\user\OneDrive - Corp\Documents'
    # -> /mnt/c/Users/user/OneDrive - Corp/Documents
    result=$(sed -e 's#C:\\#/mnt/c/#' -e 's#\\#/#g' <<< "$*")
    echo "$result"
}

wpath() {
    p=$(realpath "$*" | sed 's#/#\\#g')
    echo "\\\\wsl.localhost\\Debian$p"
}
#+end_src