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How to use WSL as default terminal in WebStorm or any other JetBrains' products?

I am currently using Windows 10 with WSL Ubuntu 18.04 installed. I am trying to use WSL as the default terminal in WebStorm however, I am able to use the bash from WSL but the default directory would not be set to the default project location.

Does anyone know how to set this up correctly?

Solution

  • After a bit of search on google found a solution to my question.

    First figure out the default wsl with the command:

    C:\Windows\System32\wslconfig /list

Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu-18.04 
Legacy (Default)

    then I set the default to Ubuntu-18.04 by

    C:\Windows\System32\wslconfig /setdefault Ubuntu-18.04

    Finally set the terminal path in Webstrom settings>tools>terminal to 

    C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe

    Now open the terminal it is correctly move the current directory to the /mnt/c/blah/blah