Project detection not working on WSL windows

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VS Code instances running on WSL do not seem to auto detect project or workspace settings, this means that opening a project on Windows will set a preset and later on, any project that i open from WSL will be using that preset, the only way to change it is setting up another preset on a Windows project. Icon presets seem to work really well on a single window, but with multiple vscode windows, they just mix and act weirdly, i made a comment in here about presets mixing between to vscode windows tho that is under another discussion, i made searches about WSL and auto detection and couldn’t find anything so i hope this is not an isolated issue, but it would be nice to at least be working on a single WSL project at a time (due to the preset mix) and get auto detection.

In this example i’m opening two workspaces that switch between angular and nestjs preset, both projects are brand new created with @angular/cli and @nestjs/cli

Also on that demo i didn’t try to se this "vsicons.projectDetection.autoReload": true on the WSL instances but later on i did and the result was the same, nest project stayed with angular preset even after deleting settings.json(workspace) reloading windows, creating a new settings.json(workspace) and setting "vsicons.presets.nestjs": true in it.

[JimiC]

So I found some time to look into this. Things are exactly as I suspected.

Both vscode instances use the same vscode-icons extension simply because we have told vscode that it should run vscode-icons from the local file system and not the remote one (see #2404). If you open the Extensions explorer you will notice that vscode-icons is only installed locally and not on WSL and that vscode does not provide an option to install it in WSL.

Now if you go to your settings (settings.json) and add the following:

"remote.extensionKind": {
    "vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons": ["workspace"]
}

by reloading vscode you will now notice an option to install vscode-icons on WSL. By doing so you will see vscode-icons showing up in the WSL part of the Extensions explorer.

From there on, experiment further.

Hope this helps.

[OmarOmeiri]

@JimiC I have made this and I could make the installation successful in WSL, but somehow, the extension is appending C:\ to my project path. This is what the logs show.

[2021-12-10 09:44:12.579] [exthost] [info] ExtensionService#loadCommonJSModule file:///c:/Users/Omar/.vscode-insiders/extensions/vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons-11.8.0/dist/src/vscode-icons.bundle.js
[2021-12-10 09:44:13.359] [exthost] [error] Activating extension vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons failed due to an error:
[2021-12-10 09:44:13.359] [exthost] [error] Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\home\omar\CODE\Lullo\Client\package.json'
[2021-12-10 09:49:45.396] [exthost] [info] extension host terminating: renderer closed the socket
[2021-12-10 09:49:46.402] [exthost] [info] exiting with code 0

I’m suspecting this is why my custom icons aren’t loading