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viewing WSL drives in fman

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Description

Hi, I'm trying to view WSL drives in Fman.

In regular windows explorer it has this path
\\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04
I tried putting that into the crtl-p navigator and it didn't take.

I also tried launching fman from my ubuntu terminal at root with fman . and it can't find the program. I did try adding fman to my path in multiple ways, but I couldn't get it to go.
Here is my current path for fman on windows
C:\​Users\​gilad\​AppData\​Local\​fman
which leads directly to the .exe, so I don't know why it's not working.
I've tried both in ubuntu (hoping it would work like explorer.exe . ) and in powershell / cmd, but it can't find it.

The reason I wanted to launch fman from terminal was I thought if I did that, it would automatically load it in the WSL drive, that's how I got it to show up in windows explorer

I really like the simplicity of fman vs total commander and would be very happy to pay for it, provided I could use my Linux files as well on windows.

I searched around and didn't find anything on this - so here is my post!
Thanks a lot ahead of time!

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Start by reproducing the reported behavior in the Ctrl-P navigator, with \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04, and from an Ubuntu terminal using fman .. Compare this with launching fman from PowerShell or cmd. Done means WSL drives can be opened in fman and the intended terminal launch behavior is documented or supported.

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Tech stack
powershell, ubuntu
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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