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New Windows User Problems

Tom Rake edited this page May 15, 2024 · 2 revisions

Nuisance issue on creating a config for another user on my core computer, noted here for reconsideration.

On my Windows 11 Home machine, I tried to boot another user, these are the issues I encountered.

  1. My Public chemacs2/.emacs.d did not have permission for access to other users. This was the git clone portion. I added Everyone to fix this.
  2. There were several problems with the standard windows launch that uses the downloaded emacs for windows
    • The cure is to do the first install from the msys2 ucrt64 shell.
    • The issues are because GnuPG for Windows does things differently than the msys2 version.
  3. org paths and directories need to be changed and corrected.
    • The issues related to default org locations are still unsettled.
    • I made default paths to locations in Code and placed TBD notes in DESKER-refor-testing
  4. The font used by org, Cantarell, was not installed
    • This a per-user install requirement
    • How to install this globally?
  5. The native Windows compiled launch has problems with code cached native compiled code.