April 2022 – Raleigh Illgen

WSL2 Native Emacs GUI mode with pgtk WSLg on Windows 11

2022-04-16 by raleigh

Wow. I just recompiled emacs to use the new WSLg system which allows windows to run Linux GUI apps using the wayland system. I got fed up with all the artifacts present in terminal mode caused by the emacs extensions causing bad redraws like LSP server that often made the buffer practically unreadable. Wish I … Read more

NPM 8.5.0 is broken with WSL2 Ubuntu 20.02

2022-04-15 by raleigh

Well this one is baffling. I’ve got a new laptop and I’m trying to install Expo, a javascript React Native framework. After getting the LTS version of Node with NVM (Node Version Manager) – I found that the default Expo install command would freeze after a few seconds. Running it verbose offered little extra information. … Read more