Jetbrains IDEs Remote Development on WSL

[Cyberavater]

Bug description

It seems any of the JetBrains IDEs cannot connect to NixOS on WSL

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
When I try to select NixOS from the WSL menu in IntelliJ nothing happens.
Expected behavior

But if I select Ubuntu, it downloads the backend and runs without any problems.

Logs

Include relevant console logs

[DaRacci]

Don't bother with remote dev, its really buggy and it doesn't work due to missing items in /bin and other hardcoded locations, install intellij on wsl directly and run it using wslg

[Cyberavater]

Don't bother with remote dev, its really buggy and it doesn't work due to missing items in /bin and other hardcoded locations, install intellij on wsl directly and run it using wslg

Yes, I was thinking about doing that. Tell me your experience , was it smooth?

[DaRacci]

Yeah i actually only got it working like yesterday but its smooth as, besides the random freeze up every few hours, but i think thats just rust rover being in early access atm.
Just had to add /usr/lib/wsl/lib to my session variables so that gpu acceleration worked instead of software rendering.

[DaRacci]

Another thing is im using home-manager i also had to add my own script to add applications to the windows start menu like:

# Fixes Home-Manager applications not appearing in Start Menu
  system.activationScripts.copy-user-launchers = stringAfter [ ] ''
    for x in applications icons; do
      echo "setting up /usr/share/''${x}..."
      targets=()
      if [[ -d "/home/${config.wsl.defaultUser}/.nix-profile/share/$x" ]]; then
        targets+=("/home/${config.wsl.defaultUser}/.nix-profile/share/$x/.")
      fi

      if (( ''${#targets[@]} != 0 )); then
        mkdir -p "/usr/share/$x"
        ${pkgs.rsync}/bin/rsync -ar --delete-after "''${targets[@]}" "/usr/share/$x"
      else
        rm -rf "/usr/share/$x"
      fi
    done
  '';

[Cyberavater]

Thanks for your advice man! appreciate ya!

Another thing I'd like to ask is since you're using home-manager are you on Ubuntu or NixOS itself?

[DaRacci]

Im on pure nixos you can check my configurations here if you want a reference, mainly look at the wsl.nix file and then the home-manager profile