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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)

submitted 1 year ago by absolute_dumbass@alien.top to c/emacs

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[–] Massive-Squirrel-255@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I downloaded the source code for emacs and compiling it locally with the --with-pgtk flag. (And --with-native-compilation for better performance)

That made my life improve a lot.

[–] Rimbosity@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

takes notes

[–] glgmacs@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also install pgtk emacs directly from snaps when under Ubuntu in wsl, if you prefer.

[–] Massive-Squirrel-255@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get a warning when compiling emacs from source with the pgtk flag telling me about a known bug in my version of gtk that causes problems when opening and closing multiple emacs instances. Do you know anything about this? In particular would it be resolved by switching to the snap?

[–] glgmacs@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea about that compilation issue you get. Since the emacs snaps (pgtk and x) are pre built binaries, you wont get that problem. Ive been using Emacs PGTK from snaps on WSLg for a year without any issue.