2.9.4

Terminal features

• Copy as HTML (#811).
• Mitigate stalling on very long paste buffer lines (#810).
• New CSI DECLL (VT100, xterm) to switch keyboard LEDs (and their associated modifier function).
• New CSI > 0/2 p to switch option HideMouse (xterm pointerMode).

Appearance

• Option Background== for floating window effect (using desktop wallpaper as background) (#18, ~#666, ~~#501).

Window handling

• Fixed suspend-output-while-selecting buffer, size is configurable (#816, ~#799).
• Consider glyph width for font width determination (#808).
• Do not start process to construct process list for exit confirmation (~#448).
• Enhanced taskbar icon grouping behaviour (#784, mintty/wsltty#96, ?#495, ?#420, ??#801).
• Setting MINTTY_SHORTCUT when started from a desktop shortcut.
• Maintain proper terminal size after DPI change in DPI awareness mode V2 (#774).

Configuration

• AppID supports placeholders for flexible customization of taskbar icon grouping behaviour (#784, mintty/wsltty#96, ?#495, ?#420, ??#801).
• Option SuspendWhileSelecting to set the max size of the suspend-output-while-selecting buffer (#816, ~#799).

2.9.3

Terminal features

• Fixed failing recognition of single-char ESC sequences.

Terminal interaction

• Enhanced ligature support redisplays previous cursor line (#601, mintty/wsltty#123).
• Support switching rectangular mode while mouse-dragging selection.

Configuration

• Option Enable132ColumnSwitching to enable 132/80-column switching initially (#196).
• Option value LigaturesSupport=2 (#601, mintty/wsltty#123).

2.9.2

Terminal interaction

• Fixed space consideration for wrap/resize/copy handling (#800, ~#82).
• Optionally include trailing space in selection (~#768, ~#800).
• Reduced occasional flickering by buffering terminal input (#799).
• Sanitized output buffering during selection (~#799).
• Ligatures display support while being input (mintty/wsltty#123, #601).
• Optionally suppress mouse wheel effects (#170).

Terminal features

• Additional 96-character NRCS (xterm 336).
• Fixed "Latin-1/UK" NRCS.

Window handling

• OSC I to set icon from file (shelltool, dtterm, xterm 333).
• OSC l to set window title (shelltool, dtterm, xterm 333).

Configuration

• Option LigaturesSupport (mintty/wsltty#123, #601).
• Option SuppressMouseWheel (#170).
• Option TrimSelection (~#768, ~#800).
• Support multi-line splitting for all key:value list options.

2.9.1

Highlights (details see below)

• User-defined key shortcuts.

• Catch-up with escape control sequences recently introduced by xterm.

• Tweaks and fixes for window manipulation and other escape sequences.

• Generic options to suppress various attributes and feature sets.

• HTML Screen Dump function.

• Optionally scale window to aspect ratio of background image.

• Mouse handling enhancements.

• Always allow switching scrollbar; do not switch on terminal reset (like xterm).

• Keyboard AltGr workaround for buggy TeamViewer.

Terminal features

• Avoid overwriting last column by clear-to-end-of-line/screen in pending auto-wrap state (#781).
• Fix maximize vertically/horizontally (preserve width/height) and restore properly.
• Fixed CSI 5/6/9/10 t default handling, preventing accidental window modification.
• Fixed CSI 13/19 t to report multi-monitor virtual screen size without padding (like xterm).
• New CSI 13;2/14;2/15/16 t (xterm 332/333).
• New CSI # {/} XTPUSHSGR and XTPOPSGR push/pop character attributes (xterm 334, extended).
• New CSI 0 i print screen.
• Keeping wrapped line selection copy together after window has been resized (~#82).
• Terminal soft reset resets cursor blinking (xterm 334).
• DECSET 66 for application keypad.
• Added DECSCPP and DECSLPP to DECRQSS (xterm 334).
• Generic option to suppress character attributes (#468, ~#478, #777, ~#459).
• Generic option to suppress DEC private mode switching.
• Generic options to suppress window operations and configuration commands.
• Optional filtering of pasted text (#768).

Keyboard handling

• User-defined key shortcuts and function keys (#705, #602, #645, #399, #252, ~#726, ~#524, ~#451, ~#523).
• Workaround for buggy TeamViewer (#783).
• Guarding Alt handling from AltGr detection (#790).
• VT220 keyboard toggle function for extended menu and user-defined keys.

Window handling

• When suppressing focus-in mouse click event, also suppress the mouse release event (#782, #717).
• After suppressing focus-in mouse click event, avoid subsequent false double-click report (#717).
• Elastic mouse text selection includes only characters dragged more than halfway (#308).
• Clearing hover highlighting as appropriate.
• Tweaked selection size hint positioning (#660).
• Optionally scale window to aspect ratio of background image (#18, #666).
• Always allow switching scrollbar; do not switch on terminal reset (like xterm).

Desktop / taskbar integration

• Partially withdrawn 2.9.0 patch to keep WSL windows together in Windows task bar (mintty/wsltty#96).
• AppID (to group taskbar icons) is derived from WSL distro only with setting AppID=@ (#784, ~mintty/wsltty#96).

Configuration

• New tool option mintheme --save to save theme in config file (#794).
• Option ElasticMouse=true to not select characters only slightly touched (#308).
• Option KeyFunctions for user-defined shortcuts and function keys (#705, #602, #645, #399, #252, ~#726, ~#524, ~#451, ~#523).
• Special option setting AppID=@ to derive taskbar grouping implicitly from WSL distro name (#784, ~mintty/wsltty#96).
• Support for Windows pathnames in background filenames (#18, #666).
• Option to scale window to aspect ratio of background image (#18, #666).
• New option value -RW to list installed WSL distributions and properties.
• Option CtrlAltDelayAltGr for relaxed AltGr detection (#783).
• Option SuppressSGR to suppress character attributes (#468, ~#478, #777, ~#459).
• Option SuppressDEC to suppress DEC private mode switching.
• Option SuppressWIN to suppress window operations.
• Option SuppressOSC to suppress window configuration commands (~#385).
• Option FilterPasteControls to filter pasted text (#768).

Other

• HTML Screen Dump function (extended context menu or escape sequence).
• Detect cygwin version for handling of @cjkwide locale modifier.
• For illegal encoding, use REPLACEMENT CHARACTER if available.
• Withdrawn Wyse cursor style modes SM 33/34 (#787).

2.9.0

Highlights (details see below)

• Background image and texture support.
• Enhanced multi-monitor DPI handling.
• Underline styles and colours, CMYK colour specifications.
• Outer scrollbar mode, xterm-compatible.
• Enhanced text selection mouse support.
• Enhanced quick window switching.
• Tweaked start error handling.
• Tweaked WSL support.

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Character attributes and rendering

• Support for colon-separated SGR sub-parameters (ISO/IEC 8613-6) (xterm 282):
• SGR escapes for ISO/IEC 8613-6 RGB, CMY, CMYK, and indexed colour formats.
• DECRQSS uses SGR sub-parameters for colour specifications (xterm 331).
• SGR 4:1...4:5 for underline styles solid, double, wavy, dotted, dashed.
• SGR 58/59 for underline colour (kitty, iTerm2).
• Fixed (almost) selection highlighting of emojis.
• Drawing Unicode Block Elements which are broken in many fonts (#264).
• Fixed initial bold as font suppression glitch (mintty/wsltty#103).

Window control

• DECSET 30 to enable/disable outer scrollbar (like xterm) (#159, ~#262).
• DECSET 1046 enables/disables alternate screen switching (xterm 331).
• Cursor style modes DECSET 12 (AT&T 610) (xterm 331) and SM 33/34 (Wyse).

Scrollbar

• Fixed scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O) from forcing scrollbar to the right.
• Preventing font zooming after scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O).

Window layout

• Background image or texture support (#18, #666).

Multi-monitor support

• Using Windows DPI handling V2, avoiding fluttering (#774, #470, #492, ~#566, ~#547).

Text selection

• Drag-and-drop selection after focus click enabled by combined cell and time distance (#717).
• Only suppress focus-click selection if focus reporting disabled or mouse reporting not effective (#717).
• Ctrl+mouse-move hovering underlines URLs and filenames (#173).
• Selection highlighting can also indicate selection size (#660).

Window handling

• Revised Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab window switching (#773).
• Ctrl+Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab for window switching including iconized windows (#735).
• Win+Shift move coupling of tab sets if SessionGeomSync ≥ 2 (#600, #699).

Configuration

• CMY(K) colour specifications in OSC sequences and config file.
• Option Background and OSC 11 to set background image or texture (#18, #666).
• Option SelectionShowSize to enable selection size indication (#660).

Themes management

• Fixed syntax error in mintheme tool (#764).
• Option mintheme -d -q for decimal colour format (#718).
• Supporting mintheme tool on WSL.
• Options mintheme -p and mintheme -t to set background picture or texture.
• Options mintheme -s and mintheme -S for theme visualization and comparison.

Other

• Updated Emoji data and built-in width data to Unicode 11.0.
• Enabled OSC 7 current directory injection for Ctrl+click in WSL (mintty/wsltty#104, mintty/wsltty#19).
• Reporting start error (exit status 255) (#745).
• Changed start error exit code from 255 to 126 (#745).
• Fixed slowdown of Character Info mode if Unicode data are not deployed.
• Option --WSLmode to tune behaviour for WSL distro but not launch (mintty/wsltty#99).
• WSLtty appx mode triggered statically or dynamically (mintty/wsltty.appx#3).
• Clarified additional configuration requirements for option TaskCommands in the manual.

2.8.5

Character handling and rendering

• CJK brackets are expanded if needed to ensure their symmetry (#756).
• Support of emoji style text attribute SGR 51/52 (mintty/wsltty#82, #600).
• Fixed emoji display variation selector handling.
• Character Info displays emoji sequence short names (mintty/wsltty#82, #600).
• Reverted Sixel colour registers patch that could fail Sixel display or even stall mintty window (#740, mintty/wsltty#90).

Input

• Reenabled Ctrl+key escape sequences (#743).
• Input optionally keeps selection highlighting (ClearSelectionOnInput=false) (#222).

Mouse handling

• Reenabled drag-and-drop text selection on focussing at a threshhold (~#717).

Configuration

• Alt+F2 and mintty --dir=... stay in selected dir even in login mode (#500, #744).
• Fixed option --dir=...
• Context menu configuration (MenuMenu etc): new flags 'x' and 'u' (#755).
• More layout-tolerant colour value syntax (#758).
• Invocation as wsl*[-distro].exe implies a --WSL[=distro] parameter (mintty/wsltty#63).
• Added missing option mintheme --list.
• New mintheme options --file (#762) and --query.
• New option ClearSelectionOnInput=false disables selection highlight clearing on input (#222).

Window handling

• Clear selection when clipboard content updated (#742).
• Skip refresh after colour setting if nothing changed (e.g. by prompt).

Desktop integration

• WSL mount point configuration (/etc/wsl.conf or fstab) is considered in path conversion for open/paste (mintty/wsltty#91).
• Workaround for ConEmu WM_MOUSEACTIVATE bug (#724).

Documentation

• Terminal multiplexer configuration: added tmux (#757).
• Search bar: activated also from context menu (#753).

2.8.4

Character handling and rendering

• Emoji support (mintty/wsltty#82, #600, ~#671, ~#430).
• Fixed double-width handling within right-to-left text.

Window handling

• Ctrl+Alt+mouse-click/drag moves the window (#729).
• Apply Virtual Tab position catching also on Alt+F2 (#699).
• Workaround for Windows failing to consider the taskbar properly when maximizing with no or frame-only border (#732).
• Workaround for caption-less window exceeding borders (#733) on Windows 10.

Mouse handling

• More selective suppression of mouse action on focus-click (mintty/wsltty#88, #717).
• Fixed mouse function in search bar (#85), broken since 2.8.2 (#717).

Desktop integration

• Support for taskbar "Tasks" list ("jump list") (#290).
• Session launcher icons (#699).

Configuration

• Options Emojis, EmojiPlacement to configure emojis style and display
• Option TaskCommands to configure a taskbar icon task list ("jump list").
• Limit tweaking of empty shortcut start dir to Start menu case (#737).

2.8.3

Character rendering

• Fixed DEC REP for (self-drawn) VT100 graphics and non-BMP (~#634).
• Tweaked output handling for ligature support (#601).
• Support left cell overhang (for italics).
• Fixed italic garbage (#725).

Configuration

• Handling empty working directory (if started from Windows shortcut) for log file.

Window handling

• Session switcher restores window only if it was iconic (mintty/wsltty#80).
• Workaround for ConEmu focus incompatibility (#724).

2.8.2

Window and session control

• Transparent session switcher icons (#699).
• Avoid blocking when switching to other window which is blocked/suspended.
• Prevent initial bogus font zooming (#708).
• Prevent accidental text selection on mouse-click window activation (#717).
• Terminal Break available in extended context menu (#716).
• Terminal Break assignable to Break key (option Key_Break) (#716).

Configuration

• Support ~/ prefix for config files in SessionCommands configuration for session launcher.
• Support ~/ prefix for logfiles, especially for usage in config files.
• With --WSL, let option "-" request login shell.
• Icon determined via --WSL shall not override icon taken from shortcut.
• Option ShortLongOpts enables single-dash named options on command line (#600, requested by Brian Inglis).
• Convenience xterm-style command line options: -fn, -fs, -geometry, -fg, -bg, ...

Character rendering and text attribute handling

• Caching ambiguous character width for speed-up (#712).
• Revised weight attribute handling, esp. bold display (thanks to avih, #714, #710).
• Distinguishing ANSI colours 0..15 from palette colours 0..15 like xterm (~#714).
• OSC 6 can enable/disable bold foreground colour (xterm).
• Tweaked brightened bold to never decrease the text colour contrast.
• Terminal Reset also resets dynamic bold foreground colour.
• Fixed non-BMP italic display.
• Proper support of true colour attribute for Copy as rich text (thanks to avih, #710).
• Colour setting sequence OSC 4 limited to the defined palette range (~#710).
• Allowing minor font size deviation of bold font.
• Underlay manual underline and overline behind text.
• Option BoldAsRainbowSparkles.

Other

• Bundling selected theme files with the package (#711).
• Support Alt+F2 in same directory (after OSC 7) for WSL.
• MINTTY_PID in UserCommands: support to terminate foreground process (#716).
• Fixed bug when copying true-colour text as rich text (thanks to avih).
• Prevent HOME from being propagated back to Windows applications if called from WSL (mintty/wsltty#76).

2.8.1

Character display

• Option Charwidth for built-in Unicode width or ambiguous wide mode (#88, #671).

Window and session control

• Virtual Tabs: additional SessionGeomSync levels (#699).
• Window icons can optionally be shown in session switcher (#699).
• Restore window frame when leaving fullscreen mode via escape sequence.

Pathname handling

• Relative pathname opening considers interactive working directory (~mintty/wsltty#19).
• Pathname opening accepts escaped space or embedding quotes (~mintty/wsltty#19).
• Relative pathname opening from WSL ignores improper directories (mintty/wsltty#19).

WSL support

• Made WSL parameter optional: --WSL.
• Option --WSL supports legacy-only installation "Bash on Windows" (mintty/wsltty#64).