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acme-wsl

Install acme / plan9port on Debian/Ubuntu-based distros on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Instructions

  1. Download and run the script:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elrzn/acme-wsl/master/install.sh | sh -s
  1. Install VcXsrv X server for Windows.
  2. To run:
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
export DISPLAY=:0
acme -af /mnt/font/DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono/12a/font
  1. Consider adding the above environmental variables to ~/.bashrc (optional):
echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1" >> ~/.bashrc
  1. Consider creating a script to launch acme with the above (optional):
echo "#!/bin/sh" >> ~/runacme.sh
echo "acme -af /mnt/font/DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono/12a/font1" >> ~/runacme.sh
sudo chmod u+x ~/runacme.sh