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You can try emacs-pgtk package, cause WSLg relies on Wayland
Yep that's what finally caused me to switch to using Emacs on WSL2 (instead of the Windows build). Then you can also get rid of that ugly white border from WSLg.
any details on that white border stuff? pgtk didnt autofix it for me in the past and id love to not have it searing my eyes
that sometimes happens when wslg has issues with bind mounting the runtime dir from the system distro or runtime dir permissions, were you by chance using it with a uid != 1000?
Not sure if there's something else missing in your setup. I'm using WSL2 (Ubuntu), and in my case all I had to do was compile Emacs passing the
--with-pgtkflag, then:And ran
gnome-tweaksin the terminal, and changed the application and icon themes to Yaru-dark.