summary:

Terminal emulator with native Windows look and feel

description:

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin.

Terminal display features * Xterm-compatible terminal emulation, coverage of all DEC terminal series screen control features. * 256 colours and True-Colour support, optional CMYK colour specification. * Full character attributes support, including italic, underline styles and colours, overline, strikeout, rapid blinking. * Extended character attributes support: shadowed, subscript, superscript (terminfo) and overstrike. * DEC VT420 screen control features, including rectangular areas. * Full Unicode support, comprehensive character encoding support and wide character handling. * Bidirectional rendering, flexible bidi controls (bidi marks and control functions). * Advanced Arabic shaping: LAM/ALEF (optional single-cell), ZWJ/ZWNJ shaping control. * Alternative fonts: simultaneous display of multiple fonts. * Secondary fonts: script-specific alternative font usage. * Dynamic installation of temporary fonts. * Reflow option on terminal resize (re-breaking of wrapped lines). * Self-drawn box characters for smooth and consistent box drawing. * Full emoji support, including all emoji sequences: emoji ZWJ sequences, dynamic support for flags emojis. * “Emoji width” mode to always render emojis in 2-cell width. * Image display support. * Sixel graphics support. * Tektronix 4014 vector graphics emulation. * Audio support: sound files and DECPS tone playing.

Terminal input and interaction features

• Character composition with full Unicode support, using dead keys and Compose key.
• Visual feedback of numeric or composed character input.
• Up to 6 key modifiers, including Meta (Win key) and configurable Super and Hyper keys.
• Comprehensive AltGr support, handling all modifier combinations.
• Windows IME support.
• Keyboard workarounds for certain buggy virtual keyboard / remote desktop / hotkey software.
• Support for all relevant mouse modes, including pixel-grained SGR and DEC locator modes.
• Text selection with mouse or keyboard.
• Easy copy & paste.
• Drag & drop of text, files and folders.
• Elastic mouse text selection.
• Ability to open files and URLs with Ctrl+click, explicit hyperlinks.
• Fast rendering and scrolling, fast keyboard feedback.
• Screenshot dump: HTML export to file and clipboard, image export.

Window handling features and desktop integration * Colour schemes / Theme file support; optional distinct theme for darkmode. * Thoughtfully designed default colour schme (theme helmholtz, by Andy Koppe). * Background texture and image support. * Virtual Tabs / session switcher and launcher. * Tabbar to switch virtual tabs (with interactive tab arrangement) for a tabbed window experience. * Dynamic tab reordering with visual feedback. * Taskbar tasks (“jump list”) configuration. Task grouping configuration. * Flexible fullscreen, fullsize and border options. * Horizontal scrolling. * Screen and scrollback buffer search. * Window transparency. * Multiple monitor support, high DPI and DPI change support; enhanced multi-monitor DPI handling. * Flexible multi-monitor window placement support.

Configuration features and system support * Native Windows user interface with a lean options dialog. * User interface language localization support. * User-defined key shortcuts and menu functions. * Flexible configuration and resource folder options. * Options stored in a text file. No registry entries. * Switchable terminal logging, switchable character information. * Runs in Cygwin, MSYS(2), midipix. Also hosting WSL. * Runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11.

categories:

Shells Base

build-depends:

cygport, gcc-core, make

install package(s):

mintty, mintty-debuginfo

homepage:

http://mintty.github.io/

license:

GPL-3.0-or-later (SPDX)

maintainer(s):

Thomas Wolff (Use the mailing list to report bugs or ask questions. Do not contact the maintainer(s) directly.)

repology info:

mintty (3.8.3)

importance:

base