Drag & Drop from File Explorer produces incorrect file paths

[acesnik]

Dragging & dropping a file from Windows File Explorer into a Bash window produces the path formatted for Windows instead of Ubuntu.

Dragging the Desktop folder into a Bash window should produce the text /mnt/c/Users/acesnik/Desktop. Instead, it produces C:\Users\acesnik\Desktop.

• Your Windows build number
  Edition: Windows 10 Pro
  Version: 1607
  OS Build: 14393.576

[jackchammons]

We are investigating adding some form of path conversion in the future but currently this is expected behavior.

[justinormont]

I'd duplicate Cygwin's behavior. Cygwin will convert paths as needed.

[mkeskells]

I agree - duplicate cygwin behaviour

[MaxValue]

Pretty Please?

[aborruso]

It would be a great thing to have the same behaviour of cygwin

[TSlivede]

I'd really like to see this implemented in Microsofts own conhost.exe, but for now one can use mintty together with wslbridge (and a link from /cygdrive to /mnt):

I did not test it, but it seems, that wsltty packages mintty and wslbridge into a single small installation...

[aborruso]

Hi @TSlivede it seems perfect. Thank you.

I will make a test and write a report here

[yiwiz-sai]

thanks @jackchammons , really hope to support this feature, it has been 2 years...

[therealkenc]

This issue was opened before creation of the console tracker, where it probably belongs. I'll leave it open here in the WSL github for another two years if that's what it takes, but WSL syscall emulation doesn't have the faintest that string being dropped into the Windows Console is a win32 formatted path. In the mean time, I just tried, and wsltty (which is mintty which is Windows Git bash which is Cygwin console) seems to work, as alluded above. wsltty works because the problem and solution is outside WSL.

[Biswa96]

which is mintty which is Windows Git bash which is Cygwin console

Some correction: "Mintty is the Cygwin Terminal emulator, also available for MSYS and Msys2."

[therealkenc]

🙄

[acesnik]

Thanks for pointing out the console tracker, @therealkenc . I opened the issue there.