New cursor install errors on WSL, and solution

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I got the attached screenshot when I started. I read plenty of posts in this forum about how to get WSL working with the summary being “it just works” (now, in 2024) e.g. How to use cursor on linux/wsl2? . But it did not, in fact, work on a fresh install when I already had WSL extension installed in my current vs code.

Instead I had to uninstall the WSL extension – after opening a new workspace because my active vs code workspaces are all in WSL, before opening a non WSL workspace, it wouldn’t even let me uninstall the extension, even tho it was erroring out. And then reinstall it following these instructions: Extension | Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor (download the extension’s vsix file from ms marketplace)

After I did that, then I had to select the distro to connect to, and then it worked to load my existing projects in WSL.

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Error message for indexing: “WSL extension is supported only in Microsoft versions of VS code”

And when I would click on the purple bottom button “Disconnected from WSL” and attempt to reconnect, it would do a windows dialog error popup about a “vscode-remote://” path being unavailable.

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I was seeing this same issue. For me, WSL was not running yet, and starting it through the windows terminal or VScode, followed by rebooting Cursor made things work again.

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This workaround does not seem to work for me.

I trying running it from wsl by doing cursor . from my WSL’s project projectory. It downloaded the VSCode server, but the VSCode extension still gives the same error message.