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ripper234
ripper234

Reputation: 230038

Launching Explorer from WSL

start . is used to launch an explorer window from cmd.

When doing the same from wsl, I get

$ start . start: Unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Is there an easy way to fix this?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 13129

Answers (2)

onoma
onoma

Reputation: 1465

Since Creators Update you can call Windows executables from WSL if you add the extension file. You can open the present folder like this.

explorer.exe .

If you still need start then you can create an alias

alias start='cmd.exe /c start'

then start . will work too.

Upvotes: 62

Mahyar Shokraeian
Mahyar Shokraeian

Reputation: 233

You can call Windows executables from WSL but you should add the extension of the file too. also there is another problem that in wsl when you want to open a directory in the file explorer, you should use explorer.exe \\home\\username\\projects\\ command because windows cannot understand linux standard path slashes. so, I made a wrapper to solve all of these problems. this project is a wrapper between the Linux command-line and windows file-explorer that converts / to \\.

with this wrapper you can interact with the windows file-explorer exactly like the linux-native one. the below box exhibits the way you can open file explorer using this wrapper.

explorer /home/

Upvotes: 0

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