Slow "start" (5s) when using it with WSL2 / Ubuntu 2204

[KervyN]

Hi,

I am just trying out this cool tool (thanks a lot for doing this work), and it takes around 5s to do anything with the it.

After some tinkering I found a solution: I've moved it form "somewhere" within the WSL distro to the windows part of the system and if was fast.

I am not sure if this is a me problem, but maybe it helps future people to solve a problem. I've attached a strace of both starts.

strace-fast.log
strace-slow.log

Best wishes, and thank you for this awesome tool <3

[GWW]

Thanks for posting this. I was having the same problem where a copy/paste would take a long time. Moving it outside of WSL2 fixed the issue for me as well.

[Nargonath]

When you move win32yank to Windows host, do you need a specific configuration on NeoVim or Windows to use it? I assume you should add it to your PATH on windows (or linux)?

[KervyN]

When you move win32yank to Windows host, do you need a specific configuration on NeoVim or Windows to use it? I assume you should add it to your PATH on windows (or linux)?

I had it in my $PATH for my WSL terminal. But I can't check anymore, because I turned my back on windows.

[Nargonath]

haha alright. No problem.

[rickywu]

yes, move to windows path solved

[mwoodpatrick]

I am seeing the sane delay issue on my Windows 11 WSL-2 distros (both Debian and NixOS).

I'm also seeing a data corruption issue.

I downloaded the latest version of win32yank.exe to directory

/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/Software/win32yank-x64_dist/

When I am in that directory and run:

 echo "hello brave new world!" | ./win32yank.exe -i
 ./win32yank.exe -o

I get:

hello brave new world!

as expected,.

However, if I run:

echo "hello brave new world!" | /mnt/c/Users/mlwp/Software/win32yank-x64_dist/win32yank.exe -i
 /mnt/c/Users/mlwp/Software/win32yank-x64_dist/win32yank.exe -o 

I get:

/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/Software/win32yank-x64_dist/win32yank.exe