Import VSCode settings to Linux

General
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I couldn’t get Cursor working on my WSL box from my Windows box (there are already issues about this here and on GitHub), so I gave up and I’m just trying to use the Linux app from within my WSL box.

But there’s no way to import my Windows VSCode settings/extensions with one click.

I really wish there was better WSL support in general…

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Thanks for pointing this out! We pushed out a fix for WSL about a month ago (or at least we thought we did).

I’ve noted this down for us to look into.

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Would also be really helpful if you could show some screenshots of the WSL bug / error that you see!

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Ubuntu:

$ cursor .
/mnt/c/Users/csimm/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/bin/cursor: 62: /mnt/c/Users/csimm/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/Cursor.exe: not found

$ ls /mnt/c/Users/csimm/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/bin/
code  code.cmd  cursor  cursor.cmd  fixWSLNew.ps1  server-env-setup  setPath.ps1

# Note the lack of Cursor.exe in this dir 👇
$ ls /mnt/c/Users/csimm/AppData/Local/Programs/cursor/resources/app/
'$HOME'                              bin                      node_modules.asar            product.json
 Cursor.VisualElementsManifest.xml   builderStaticFiles       node_modules.asar.unpacked   resources
 LICENSE.txt                         entitlements.mac.plist   out                          scripts
 ThirdPartyNotices.txt               extensions               package.json

Location of cursor bin in Windows

772×373 15.3 KB

Location of Cursor.exe in Windows
776×292 13.8 KB

Cursor.exe just isn’t in C:\Users\csimm\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app

I tried making a copy, symlinking, etc. But the paths in the cursor bin just need a bit more work than I’m willing to do right now so I just did a workaround and directly invoke Cursor from within WSL:

alias curse="/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe -Command \"& 'C:\\Users\\csimm\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\cursor\\Cursor.exe' .\""

:warning: If anyone copy/pastes this, be sure to swap out csimm with your Windows user name.

Usage:

$ cd ~/Projects/my-project
$ curse

Sidenote: I hate this forum software. It’s ugly and it keeps restricting me (can’t post images, can only post 2 links) because I’m a new user. I’m sure there are reasons devs use it, but I wish everyone would just use GH Issues/Discussions. :frowning: