wsl2-GUI-emacs open file with explorer.exe instead of xdg-open

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I am working on wsl2+emacs GUI version with VcxSrv window manager server.

Within the GUI version, emacs does not open files with windows-app as it does in wsl2-terminal-emacs.

Take an example:

on dired window, I strike key & invoking dired-do-async-shell-command to open file "demestic.01.pdf";

it prompt to run with "xdg-open" rather than "explorer.exe".

Is it possible to replace "xdg-open" with "explorer.exe"?

VPraharsha · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-14T17:09:37.003

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EDIT: You can take a look at wslview which is a part of wslu (it ships with latest versions of Ubuntu distro) and is a better alternative. wslview will try to detect the protocol used(file:, http:, https:), check whether it is a Linux path or Windows path, translate it to the proper form and open the file/folder/link.

And if you want everything to be opened in Windows, just create a link:

sudo ln -s ../../bin/wslview /usr/local/bin/xdg-open

So, whenever xdg-open is invoked, everything would open up in Windows

edited Mar 14 '21 at 17:09

answered Mar 14 '21 at 11:43

VPraharsha

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ty, but it's for wsl1. – AbstProcDo Mar 15 '21 at 00:02
wslu does support WSL2, isn't it ? you can similarly create a symbolic link to xdg-open-wsl script – VPraharsha Mar 15 '21 at 04:39
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Amazing, I am beyond exciting to say thank you! the problem turns out to be a pain for eveyone lol and solved. – AbstProcDo Mar 17 '21 at 23:18
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Welcome :) Glad that it helped and thanks for selecting it as the answer – VPraharsha Mar 18 '21 at 12:11

wsl2-GUI-emacs open file with explorer.exe instead of xdg-open

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