microsoft / microsoft/terminal

drag/drop gives wrong path in Canonical's Ubuntu profiles

Open
#14,233 9 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub
Area-Settings Issue-Bug Product-Terminal Resolution-External
Dominant language
C++
Stars
105k
Forks
9.6k
Avg merge
3d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
29

Description

# Description of the new feature/enhancement
While dragging a file into the terminal the path it generates becomes unusable in wsl. Shouldn't it generate the path from the mount point of wsl?

# Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reproducing a file drag/drop into a terminal using Canonical's Ubuntu profile under WSL, and trace the terminal's generated-path behavior. Verify how the WSL mount point is determined and compare the resulting path with what the shell can use. Done means dragged files produce a usable WSL path in this profile.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.