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One of the issues with Windows Terminal is the annoying sound that gets triggered when you hit a text or navigation boundary using the tab, backspace, or arrow keys. Apparently, that sound is a bell, and it is left on by default. To disable it, you can follow the short steps outline below.
After a lot of testing, you’ve installed many apps in the instance. In some cases, you want to factory reset the instance to the default settings to get a clean and fresh one. In WSL 2, you can unregister the instance then install the new one manually. But it could be a boring task if you need to it frequently.
In some cases, you want to configure or limit the memory (RAM) for a WSL instance. By default, WSL will take 50% of the host memory. You can check how much memory and swap space are allocated to WSL using the free command from within a WSL distribution:
In some cases, you get the following error when trying to open an WSL instance in Windows Subsystem for Linux.
After installing WSL/Ubuntu 22.04 from the Microsoft Store on Windows 11, a Linux icon was added to the Desktop which could not be removed the usual way.
When the startingDirectory value is not specified, you will get different results depending on where you launch Terminal
In some cases, you get the following error when trying to run a Linux instance in WSL 2 in Windows host machine.
You’re running Windows 10 22H2 and installed WSL and Ubuntu via the Microsoft Store.
In some cases, you want to move an installed WSL instance to another drive instead of the system drive (C:). For example, you want to backup or preventing any mistake when re-installing Windows.
At this moment, WSL doesn’t support Ubuntu 23.10 officially. So, we need to install it manually. Below is a quick snapshot about the manual process.