Does anyone run Emacs with wsl2? I've noticed that fonts are quite a bit less crisp than they could be. On the left is running Emacs on a native terminal, on the right is the gui application.(alien.top)

posted 11 months ago

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teaspoonzzz@alien.topB

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11 months ago

Yep that’s what finally caused me to switch to using Emacs on WSL2 (instead of the Windows build). Then you can also get rid of that ugly white border from WSLg.

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pekudzu@alien.topB

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11 months ago

any details on that white border stuff? pgtk didnt autofix it for me in the past and id love to not have it searing my eyes

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teaspoonzzz@alien.topB

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11 months ago

Not sure if there’s something else missing in your setup. I’m using WSL2 (Ubuntu), and in my case all I had to do was compile Emacs passing the --with-pgtk flag, then:

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks yaru-theme-gtk yaru-theme-icons

And ran gnome-tweaks in the terminal, and changed the application and icon themes to Yaru-dark.

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filippoargiolas@alien.topB

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11 months ago

that sometimes happens when wslg has issues with bind mounting the runtime dir from the system distro or runtime dir permissions, were you by chance using it with a uid != 1000?

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