WSL2 Cheatsheet

Setup

Windows 10

• Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region.
  • Choose a language from the Windows display language menu, or, next to Preferred languages, select Add a language to install the one you want if it isn’t listed.
  • press Alt + Shift to change keyboard language to German
• Right-click on the taskbar, and in the context menu that appears, select News and interests > Turn off

Wi-Fi: Turn off metered connection (“getaktete Verbindung”)

• Eine getaktete Verbindung ist eine Internetverbindung, der ein Datenlimit zugeordnet wurde.
• Mobilfunkdatenverbindungen sind standardmäßig als getaktet festgelegt.

• WLAN- und Ethernet-Netzwerkverbindungen können als getaktet festgelegt werden, sind es standardmäßig aber nicht.

• To set a Wi-Fi network connection as metered:
  • Select Start > Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi > Manage known networks.
  • Select the Wi-Fi network > Properties > turn off Set as metered connection.

WSL2, Windows Terminal

• install WSL2
• install Windows Terminal
  • open Windows Terminal Settings via Ctrl + ,
  • set default profile “Ubuntu”
  • under “Ubuntu” profile settings, under “Appearance”:
    • set default color scheme “Tango Dark”
    • set default font “Ubuntu Mono”
    • set Cursor shape “filled box”

Vim

• install Vundle
• install Papercolor Theme in vim
• install Ubuntu font as default terminal font
  • unzip
  • mark all the fonts in the package
  • right-click on the marked packages and select “install”
• install vim-markdown
• install markdown preview
  • don’t forget :call mkdp#util#install() after :PluginInstall

VSCode

• install VSCode on Windows (not in WSL!)
• install Remote - WSL Extension in VSCode
  • guide
  • restart Windows Terminal after installation
  • in WSL2 run code .. The download will take a while and the following messages will appear:

    Installing VS Code Server for x64 (74b1f979648cc44d385a2286793c226e611f59e7)
    Downloading: 100%
    Unpacking: 100%
    Unpacked 2424 files and folders to /home/bra-ket/.vscode-server/bin/74b1f979648cc44d385a2286793c226e611f59e7.
    

• install C/C++ Extension in VSCode

bash

• ~/.bashrc should already exist
  • set

    HISTSIZE= 
    HISTFILESIZE=
    

• create .bash_aliases

  alias gcc_phth='gcc -g -Wall -pedantic '
  

C/C++

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install gcc build-essential gdb

• build-essential gdb includes g++

firefox

• disable addons:
  • iCloud Bookmarks
  • StickyNotes
  • TeXZilla
  • Reload in address bar

Usage

Starting a Windows Program in WSL

• source
• make sure the program can be found by checking echo $PATH
• When you are in a WSL shell, you can execute a Windows 10 program simply by typing its full name, including the .exe extension.
• If you do not include the .exe extension when executing a command, WSL will think its a Linux command.
• If you wanted to launch a program that is not in your PATH, you would need to specify the full path/to/program.exe.
  • e.g. "/mnt/c/program files/7-zip/7z.exe" a -tzip code.zip code/

Apps

command	description
explorer.exe .	open Windows Explorer in current directory