WSL is treated as a single environment, when in fact there may be many

Open 💬 0 comments Opened May 19, 2026 by Bilge

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.513.40821

What subscription do you have?

WTF?

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

If I select WSL as environment

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When opening the terminal toggle, I see my default WSL distro, which does not contain my project.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Set "WSL" as the terminal shell
  2. Open terminal

What is the expected behavior?

Since there is no option to select the correct distribution, who knows what to expect, but it seems it uses the "default" distribution, which is not the one I want to use.

Additional information

You need to provide a distribution selection.

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