Do you want to work on this issue?
You can request for a bounty in order to promote it!
Open using a Windows app referred by its WSL path not supported #117
stephen-zhao posted onGitHub
When I do work on WSL, oftentimes I need to open files using a Windows binary. One example is opening web URLs, where the $BROWSER
environment variable is passed in as app
in the args. This variable is set as a WSL path, e.g. /mnt/d/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe
instead of D:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
. cmd.exe
fails to find the application because it does not understand the WSL path.
We can add support to this by detecting if the app
path is a WSL path and convert it to a Windows path if necessary.
Example use-case:
Currently, the npm package react-dev-utils
makes a call to opn
, passing in $BROWSER
.