Correct configuration for wsl2. Ignoring ConPTY limitations

[Wizarsy]

What Operating System(s) are you running on?

Windows, Linux Wayland

Which Wayland compositor or X11 Window manager(s) are you using?

WezTerm version

20250116-151613-6c443bee

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Hi, I'm trying to find out how I could configure wezterm to use it properly with wsl2. I know that opening wsl directly inside wezterm will fall into the limitations of ConPTY and I can't, for example, view images in the terminal with yazi... The simplest solution to solve this according to what the documentation indicates is to use ssh, however I was trying to configure a unix domain, but I didn't have much success in how to do this in wsl2. The documentation only indicates an example that works in wsl1. How could I proceed?

[dnguyener]

Are you able to try a ssh domain?

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/SshDomain.html

[Wizarsy]

I made this configuration using domain ssh... the configuration works, but I still have doubts about whether this is the only right way to do it.

config.ssh_domains = {
    {
      name = "arch",
      username = "wizarsy",
      remote_address = "127.0.0.1",
      multiplexing = "WezTerm",
      assume_shell = "Posix",
      ssh_option = {
        identityfile = os.getenv("USERPROFILE") .. "\\.ssh\\arch.key"
      },
      default_prog = {"zsh"}
    },
  }

[xpufx]

You can put ssh related customizations in ~/.ssh/config . Wezterm already populates that list for the Command Palette (ctrl-shift-p). i am not sure about 'assume_shell' but the others should be supported in ssh config.

[Wizarsy]

After researching a bit more about the problem surrounding openconsole/conpty I found a simpler and more functional solution. In short, the windows terminal preview version can normally display images in the terminal due to having a more recent version of openconsole/conpty, so basically I compiled this version myself and replaced the existing version inside the wezterm installation directory and now everything works as it should.