Installing Cygwin/X on WindowsĪs there’s already a great documentation page dedicated to installing Cygwin/X on Windows, I’m not going to repeat these instructions here. I tried a few of them to see which one works for me before settling on Cygwin/X, which turned out to be the most stable to me, even though the setup procedure is a bit more involved.

There are a few different options to achieve this: To do this we’ll need to add support for X11 to our WSL with the help of X11 Port Forwarding. Well, if using a Windows version of WebStorm with WSL2 is such a pain, why don’t I just run WebStorm inside WSL2. What happened for me is that my project files disappeared. idea folder gets corrupted by Windows version of Jetbrains tools This particular problem can be observed by opening freshly pulled project from repository, opening it in Jetbrains editor, closing the project and re-opening it. Line endings can be changed in Jetbrains tools to whatever you prefer, but that might not be ideal when dealing with projects on WSL and Windows from the same setup This will not be the case on WSL, and could get you into some problems down the line. On Windows the git client does the conversion between CRLF and LF for you when pulling and committing changes, so this is not an issue. This however can cause problems when editing files on WSL. Incorrect line endings By default WebStorm/IntelliJ/P圜harm assume that the files you write should be using the line endings from the OS you’re in. “Filesystem Case-Sensitivity Mismatch” This can be easily fixed by going to “Help” -> “Edit Custom Properties”, and setting =true as described here: One thing to watch out with this setting is that you’re going to get that same warning when you open a project from your windows partition, so setting it to true might not be the optimal option.

raises a warning “External file changes sync may be slow” From what I gathered it’s because WebStorm can’t start the fsnotifier64 on a network drive, which it thinks our Linux is on. This however causes a number of problems listed below This problem has been described well by a lot of blog posts and bug reports, and everyone suggests to keep your project files on native Linux filesystem, for example /home//projects like I do. Here’s a list of the problems I myself encountered when using WebStorm with WSL2 (the problems are the same in any of their tools - WebStorm, P圜harm and IntelliJ): Example problems

If you managed to get here then I’m assuming you also have problems using Jetbrains tools with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).

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