Opening Emacs from windows

For various reasons, I prefer running a Emacs from WSL. I also exclusively it with a window system.

Wouldn't it be nice to open Emacs directly from Windows?

In order to open Emacs, I run it from a shell as it requires some environment variables which are configured from the login scripts. As a result, I need to keep a terminal window open for that shell.

It's not too inconvenient most of the time since I usually have some other needs for the terminal. Nevertheless it's still noise in my desktop environment when I just want to use Emacs.

Over the years, I've tried multiple solutions and I've finally found one that I'm satifised with.

The idea is to use tmux to spin up the Emacs process. Since tmux does not need to be always attached to the terminal, I can keep my window count to just Emacs.

In order to launch everything from the Windows side of things, I create a shortcut with the following target:

C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe --cd "/home/augustfengd" --exec zsh -lic "if ! tmux new-window -t emacs: -e WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 emacs; then tmux new-session -A -d -s emacs -e WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 emacs; fi"

This enables me to launch Emacs from the Start menu.