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This fixes using "cursor" command in WSL
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| #!/usr/bin/env sh | |
| # LATEST VERSION OF THIS SCRIPT: https://gist.github.com/swayducky/8ba8f2db156c7f445d562cdc12c0ddb4 | |
| # FORKED FROM: https://gist.github.com/ddwang/0046da801bcb29d241869d37ad719394 | |
| # 1) No longer has a hard-coded COMMIT | |
| # 2) Auto-symlinks a "code" script to avoid wslCode.sh breaking | |
| # HOW TO INSTALL: | |
| # 1) Remove "c:\Users\<USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app\bin" from Windows Environment Settings | |
| # 2) Modify this script with your Windows <USER_NAME> (NOT your WSL username) in the VSCODE_PATH variable | |
| # 3) Save this script as ~/.local/bin/cursor | |
| # 4) chmod +x ~/.local/bin/cursor | |
| # See DISCUSSION: | |
| # Github Issue: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/807 | |
| # Forum Thread: https://forum.cursor.com/t/is-there-wsl2-support/97/42 | |
| # Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. | |
| # Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information. | |
| if [ "$VSCODE_WSL_DEBUG_INFO" = true ]; then | |
| set -x | |
| fi | |
| SERVER_BIN="${HOME}/.cursor-server/bin/" | |
| COMMIT="$(ls -t1 $SERVER_BIN 2> /dev/null | head -n 1)" # dynamically figure out the COMMIT :) | |
| APP_NAME="code" | |
| QUALITY="stable" | |
| NAME="Cursor" | |
| SERVERDATAFOLDER=".cursor-server" | |
| VSCODE_PATH="/mnt/c/Users/<YOUR_USERNAME>/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/" | |
| ELECTRON="$VSCODE_PATH/$NAME.exe" | |
| IN_WSL=false | |
| if [ -n "$WSL_DISTRO_NAME" ]; then | |
| # $WSL_DISTRO_NAME is available since WSL builds 18362, also for WSL2 | |
| IN_WSL=true | |
| else | |
| WSL_BUILD=$(uname -r | sed -E 's/^[0-9.]+-([0-9]+)-Microsoft.*|.*/\1/') | |
| if [ -n "$WSL_BUILD" ]; then | |
| if [ "$WSL_BUILD" -ge 17063 ]; then | |
| # WSLPATH is available since WSL build 17046 | |
| # WSLENV is available since WSL build 17063 | |
| IN_WSL=true | |
| else | |
| # If running under older WSL, don't pass cli.js to Electron as | |
| # environment vars cannot be transferred from WSL to Windows | |
| # See: https://github.com/microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1363 | |
| # https://github.com/microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1494 | |
| "$ELECTRON" "$@" | |
| exit $? | |
| fi | |
| fi | |
| fi | |
| if [ $IN_WSL = true ]; then | |
| export WSLENV="ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE/w:$WSLENV" | |
| CLI=$(wslpath -m "$VSCODE_PATH/resources/app/out/cli.js") | |
| # use the Remote WSL extension if installed | |
| WSL_EXT_ID="ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl" | |
| ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 "$ELECTRON" "$CLI" --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node --locate-extension $WSL_EXT_ID >/tmp/remote-wsl-loc.txt 2>/dev/null </dev/null | |
| WSL_EXT_WLOC=$(tail -n 1 /tmp/remote-wsl-loc.txt) | |
| WSL_CODE=$(wslpath -u "${WSL_EXT_WLOC%%[[:cntrl:]]}")/scripts/wslCode.sh | |
| MY_CLI_DIR_YO="$SERVER_BIN/$COMMIT/bin/remote-cli" | |
| # if /code doesn't exist, symlink it | |
| if [ ! -d "$MY_CLI_DIR_YO/code" ]; then | |
| ln -s "$MY_CLI_DIR_YO/cursor" "$MY_CLI_DIR_YO/code" | |
| fi | |
| if [ -n "$WSL_EXT_WLOC" ]; then | |
| # replace \r\n with \n in WSL_EXT_WLOC | |
| WSL_CODE=$(wslpath -u "${WSL_EXT_WLOC%%[[:cntrl:]]}")/scripts/wslCode.sh | |
| "$WSL_CODE" "$COMMIT" "$QUALITY" "$ELECTRON" "$APP_NAME" "$SERVERDATAFOLDER" "$@" | |
| exit $? | |
| fi | |
| elif [ -x "$(command -v cygpath)" ]; then | |
| CLI=$(cygpath -m "$VSCODE_PATH/resources/app/out/cli.js") | |
| else | |
| CLI="$VSCODE_PATH/resources/app/out/cli.js" | |
| fi | |
| ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 "$ELECTRON" "$CLI" --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node "$@" | |
| exit $? |
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The
cursor .command did end up working as a result, but it wouldn't open the IDE from folder it was run from. I'm not 100% sure, but it's possible this also broke my agent terminal integration... that might just be correlation tho.Here's what I did to get
cursor .command to work in WSL2 Ubuntu (including opening the IDE from the folder the command was run from).In
.profileadd this:export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program Files/cursor/resources/app/bin"(that's for default system install path, yours may be different.