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| pm5k | Hi, I am currently having trouble figuring out why my wsl install of nix isn't seeing windows binaries available to it (explorer.exe for instance) nor can I see the windows path prepended to my nixOS path.
My config for the system (wsl specifically) is:
wsl = {
enable = true;
defaultUser = "redacted";
nativeSystemd = true;
interop.register = true;
wslConf.network.hostname = "nixwsl";
};
Based on the documentation provided here: https://nix-community.github.io/NixOS-WSL/options.html the following options default to true and as such I assume they are set whether or not I explicitly define them in the block above?
- wsl.interop.includePath
- wsl.wslConf.interop.enabled
- wsl.wslConf.interop.appendWindowsPath
However upon trying to run "explorer.exe" - it simply does not work. Not so on my orther wsl VM running Arch where the path seems to be appended properly. Can anyone help?
| 10:16:31 |
 K900 | What shell are you using? | 10:28:04 |
| pm5k | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
What shell are you using? zsh | 10:30:20 |
| K900 | Make sure programs.zsh.enable is enabled in your config | 10:30:35 |
| pm5k | 
Download image.png | 10:31:04 |
| pm5k | This is in configuration.nix | 10:31:12 |
| pm5k | 
Download image.png | 10:31:42 |
| pm5k | I also use this: | 10:31:43 |
| K900 | That is probably what's breaking it then | 10:31:59 |
| pm5k | Since I want my zshrc transferrable I am sourcing it this way | 10:31:59 |
| pm5k | Does not seem to be as if I comment that out, and not use that symlink letting zsh gen a base config it still does not work | 10:33:24 |
| pm5k | Oh okay so you know what the issue was? | 10:36:38 |
| pm5k | Simply logging out from the profile does not reapply the path stuff | 10:36:53 |
| pm5k | you need to execute wsl --shutdown for this to be picked up | 10:37:06 |
| pm5k | Just tried it as a last ditch effort and it worked | 10:37:17 |
 nzbr (they/it) | Anything that changes wsl.conf requires a restart of the distro (wsl -t <name> should be sufficient). It'd be nice if we could add a warning for that, like I've seen on other distros when an update requires a reboot | 17:02:54 |
| nzbr (they/it) | We could touch a file in /run through an activation script and print the message there as well as in the shell wrapper when there's no arguments and it is started as a login shell | 17:05:36 |
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 balanced_design | 
Download ANhjzWUkI9.jpg | 18:07:47 |
| balanced_design | Im back to trying to get this to work.
I had a default configuration.nix and I tried to include this in many many ways, all of which failed.
This is what my current attempt looks like: | 18:07:53 |
| K900 | Just take lines 20-32 from that config | 18:08:53 |
| K900 | And paste them into the normal place you set options in | 18:09:04 |
| balanced_design | I tried again a few ways to do that, still getting errors on rebuild switch. This is what my config looks like: | 18:16:43 |
| balanced_design | 
Download DgBa5EArLU.jpg | 18:16:44 |
| K900 | It needs to be in the same {} as the rest of your confif | 18:17:33 |
