Brett Israelsen

I am going to put a few notes here about how I set up my bash environment on Windows 10.

• First you need to get “bash on ubuntu on Windows” onto your installation. This page was pretty helpful.
• Installed neovim using apt-get install neovim
• From this post I found out how to get x windows open
  • basically installed VcXsrv, added the VcXsrv shortcut to the startup folder to automatically start the server on startup
  • add export DISPLAY=:0.0 to my .bashrc
• The default terminal for bash.exe wasn’t great so I used wsltty
  • I downloaded the hacker font from NerdFonts, which gives Powerline symbols, and other nice stuff
  • See this issue for how to add new fonts
• I am using auto-hotkey to get my shortcut key functionality that I am missing from stock Windows
  • This is to trigger always on top, which I really like especially when working on my laptop If GetKeyState("Alt","P") ; This makes Alt-LShift-a the shortcut for always on top LShift & a:: Winset, Alwaysontop, , A

  • This is to launch some of my favorite applications, the your-app-id part below by creating a desktop shortcut for Google Keep and then looking at the shortcut properties. ``` #k:: ; Google Keep Run “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –profile-directory=Default –app-id=your-app-id Return

    #f:: ; File manager Run explorer.exe Return

    #w:: ; Chrome Run “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” Return ```

• I installed tex-live in the lxss using this script, and had to add the path in my .bashrc using: PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux/:$PATH

I’ll keep trying to add stuff here as I find it.