Follow-ups to the salvaged WSL-bridge gating (#66447):
- wsl-path-bridge.ts: discard wsl.exe stderr so the 'WSL is not installed'
banner can never leak into an attached console on WSL-less machines (#80184).
- scripts/desktop-update/windows.ps1: add an explorer.exe-mediated detached
relaunch rung between the WMI attempt and the tethered Start-Process
fallback. When Win32_Process.Create fails (observed ReturnValue 8), the
Desktop no longer re-attaches to the hand-off console, so its stdout stops
flooding the window and the console can close.
Seed backend-mode state before creating the first window and update it after runtime resolution. Keep remote reconnects gated until a local backend is confirmed.
Cover Windows child-process suppression and bridge state transitions.
When the desktop UI runs on Windows and the gateway runs in WSL, a WSL/POSIX
cwd isn't openable/readable from the Windows host. Add wsl-path-bridge.ts to
translate the Windows-side direction only:
- native folder dialog defaultPath: `/home/...` → `\\wsl.localhost\<distro>\...`
- fs read path: WSL cwd → its UNC / `C:\` drive form
Distro detection reads `wsl.exe -l -q` with `WSL_UTF8=1` and strips stray NUL
bytes, since older wsl.exe emits UTF-16LE (microsoft/WSL#4607) — the original
utf8 read returned a garbled distro name. UNC uses `\\wsl.localhost\` with a
`\\wsl$\` fallback for older Windows. The reverse (any path → POSIX) is handled
once gateway-side, so the picker result needs no desktop translation.
Co-authored-by: Rage Lopez <VrtxOmega@pm.me>
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