cmd: Proxy flag is causing WSL to open browser using x11 forwarding. Causing terminal to pause logs.

[Huzaifa-MS]

Is there any way to get output to show after using proxy flag?

It's blocking any logs from the changes I make in .templ files from showing up. I believe this is due to XDISPLAY in WSL

[a-h]

You could try using -open-browser=false to skip opening the browser automatically as a workaround.

Opening the browser is done using the https://github.com/cli/browser package, which should support the wslview command.

There's some information on the setup here: https://superuser.com/questions/1262977/open-browser-in-host-system-from-windows-subsystem-for-linux

Looking at the source code of cli/browser, it seems that it should attempt to use wslview, if it's available: https://github.com/cli/browser/blob/main/browser_linux.go

[Huzaifa-MS]

Thank you for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it

[a-h]

I'm not really sure of any more action to take here @Huzaifa-MS - if everyone that's using Windows will have this problem, then I'd like to "fix" it, but I don't know anything about WSL, and can't test any resolution - I only have Mac and Linux computers.

Is the "fix" to install wslview in your Virtual Machine? Not sure.

[Huzaifa-MS]

Yeah sorry I should've put it into discussion maybe. Not really a templ issue. More like a VM one

[a-h]

It's no problem, just wondering if there should be a docs update, eg a note to let windows users that they need to install wslview or something.

Or perhaps it's a change required upstream in the browser package to check that a desktop env is available.

[Huzaifa-MS]

Not sure will let you know my results if I get it working

[Huzaifa-MS]

This issue was not due to x11 forwarding. It was due to vscode editing on windows and cli running on wsl.
I believe templ solves this by using polling. So templ files are caught. but my .go files are not.
My application built on top of templ, similar to air does not poll.
Air I believe does implement polling.

go fsnotify polling issue: fsnotify/fsnotify#603

[a-h]

Ah, that's interesting. I don't use Windows. When I'm coding with people that are using WSL, I usually advise them to run everything in WSL for consistency or it gets rather confusing.

Do you think we need to do anything here, or is this something to close?

[Huzaifa-MS]

My bad I did not see this. The issue is beyond the scope of the repo and fixed via using wsl and ssh vscode into it or make poller for dev environment