Skip `docker*` DistributionName?

[puellanivis]

I just spent a bunch of time looking into how to get the config-distros.sh file to ignore the docker distros. There’s pretty much zero reason I would ever really want to start up in those WSL distros, they’re just there to provide docker. Docker itself allows for integrating with other WSL distros as well, so my openSUSE WSL distro can access my docker instance just as well as anything else.

I eventually hacked something together to get only the context menus that I want, and I just manually deleted the unwanted Start Menu entries. Seems like a bit of a pain that could be avoided by just skipping over anything docker*) in theconfig()` case statement?

[mintty]

Duplicate; I postponed it following https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/261#issuecomment-723872090,; also I don't have docker installed myself so I'm somehow missing a test case. Is it easy to tell a docker distro apart? Do their names all start with "docker"?

[puellanivis]

Ah, I went looking for another issue covering it, but didn’t think to look in that one.

Yes, it is reasonably easy to tell them apart as the DistributionName for the two are docker-desktop and docker-desktop-data.

PS: They also have a BasePath value of: \\?\C:\Users\${USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\distro

[mintty]

I've uploaded a filtering version of the configuration script, for the next release. Feel free to download and test it. The script also takes a parameter -info for some checking. This patch does not catch the case (described in another issue) that a docker system gets setup as WSL default distribution.

[puellanivis]

Makes sense. Skipping the WSL default would be way harder.

[mintty]

PS: They also have a BasePath value of: \?\C:\Users\${USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\distro

Now also filtering out a docker default distribution based on this information, easy enough.

[mintty]

Released 3.5.0.

[puellanivis]

Works amazing. Thanks! :)