CtrlSeqs
Mintty's terminal emulation is aimed at compatibility with xterm. Most of the xterm control sequences documented at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html are supported. Please report as bugs any incompatibilities or unimplemented sequences that would be useful.
Some sequences that were introduced by other terminals such as the Linux console, and that aren't available in xterm, are also supported.
This page only lists control sequences that are specific to mintty. Caret notation is used to show control characters. The full details of all supported control sequences are only available in the source code.
These escape sequences cause mintty to report its identification.
| request | response | comment |
|---|---|---|
^[[>0c |
^[[>77;version;unicodec
|
secondary devices attributes (DEC); version like 30105, unicode version when using built-in data |
^[[>0q |
^[P>|mintty version^[\
|
terminal identification query (xterm 354); version like 3.1.5 |
There are two settings controlling the keycode sent by the Esc key.
The first controls application escape key mode, where the escape key sends a keycode that allows applications such as vim to tell it apart from the escape character appearing at the start of many other keycodes, without resorting to a timeout mechanism.
| sequence | mode | keycode |
|---|---|---|
^[[?7727l |
normal |
^[ or ^\
|
^[[?7727h |
application | ^[O[ |
When application escape key mode is off, the escape key can be be configured to send ^\ instead of the standard ^[. This allows the escape key to be used as one of the special keys in the terminal line settings (as set with the stty utility).
| sequence | keycode |
|---|---|
^[[?7728l |
^[ |
^[[?7728h |
^\ |
Application control key mode can be configured per control key. It facilitates more distinction between different keys, as well as usage of Ctrl+[ in various applications that would normally handle the ESC character as a generic key code prefix. Possible distinctions:
- Esc key and Ctrl+[ key
- Tab character and Ctrl+I key
- NUL character sent by Ctrl+space and NUL key code sent by Ctrl+@
As a generic feature, this configuration is accepted for all control
characters. Generated key codes are similar to those sent in the xterm
modifyOtherKeys mode, but normalized to a contiguous range of codes using
capital ASCII character codes, and indicating the control modifier only.
Settings can be combined in a common sequence like ^[[?77009;77027h.
The respective setting is cleared with a corresponding sequence ending with l.
| sequence | input | key code |
|---|---|---|
^[[?77000h |
Ctrl+@ | ^[[64;5u |
| ... | ||
^[[?77009h |
Ctrl+I | ^[[73;5u |
| ... | ||
^[[?77027h |
Ctrl+[ | ^[[91;5u |
| ... | ||
^[[?77031h |
Ctrl+_ | ^[[95;5u |
Mintty allows to set, save or restore the IME status explicitly, to support applications like text editors to adapt it to the current input target.
| sequence | IME status |
|---|---|
^[[<ont
|
Open (1) or Close (0, default) IME status |
^[[<s |
Save (push) IME status |
^[[<r |
Restore (pop) IME status |
When shortcut override mode is on, all shortcut key combinations are sent to the application instead of triggering window commands.
| sequence | override |
|---|---|
^[[?7783l |
off |
^[[?7783h |
on |
With the VT520 sequence DECARR the keyboard auto-repeat speed can be limited to the given value in characters per second. Unlike original DECARR, a value of 0 disables repeat rate limitation. Keyboard auto-repeat can also be disabled with DECSET 8 (DECARM).
| sequence | comment |
|---|---|
^[[cps-p
|
max 30 |
^[[-p |
unlimited |
^[[?8l |
disable auto-repeat |
^[[?8h |
enable auto-repeat |
Mintty extends the scope of rectangular area attributes change functions DECCARA and DECRARA to additional attributes as suitable. Colour and font changing functions are only supported with DECCARA. True colour and underline colour settings are not supported. Examples:
| sequence | function |
|---|---|
^[[2*x |
set rectangular area extent |
^[[Pt;Pl;Pb;Pr;3;38:5:20$r
|
set italic and palette colour 20 in area |
^[[Pt;Pl;Pb;Pr;29$r
|
clear strikeout in area |
^[[Pt;Pl;Pb;Pr;9$t
|
revert strikeout in area |
This sequence scrolls down screen lines like SD (CSI T) but fills the empty lines from the end of the scrollback buffer.
^[[N+T
Mintty implements the DEC VT320 status line and extends the feature to support a multi-line host-writable status area. It is configured with a proprietary second parameter to DECSSDT 2. Its height is limited to be smaller than half the screen height.
| sequence | function |
|---|---|
^[[0$~ or ^[[$~
|
disable status line |
^[[1$~ |
enable indicator status line |
^[[2$~ |
enable host-writable status line |
^[[2;N$~
|
enable host-writable status area, N lines |
^[[0$} or ^[[$}
|
select normal display (for writing) |
^[[1$} |
select status display (for writing) |
Mintty supports bidi rendering by default. However, some applications may prefer to control bidi appearance themselves. There is one option (Bidi) and some control sequences to adjust the behaviour.
| option | bidi |
|---|---|
Bidi=0 |
disabled |
Bidi=1 |
disabled on alternate screen |
Bidi=2 |
(default) enabled |
| sequence | bidi |
|---|---|
^[[?77096h |
disabled |
^[[?77096l |
enabled |
^[[?7796h |
disabled on current line |
^[[?7796l |
not disabled on current line |
^[[8h |
BDSM (ECMA-48): implicit bidi mode (bidi-enabled lines) |
^[[8l |
BDSM (ECMA-48): explicit bidi mode (bidi-disabled lines) |
^[[?2501h |
enable bidi autodetection (default) |
^[[?2501l |
disable bidi autodetection |
^[[1 k |
SCP (ECMA-48): set lines to LTR paragraph embedding level |
^[[2 k |
SCP (ECMA-48): set lines to RTL paragraph embedding level |
^[[0 k |
SCP (ECMA-48): default direction handling: autodetection with LTR fallback |
^[[?2500h |
enable box mirroring (*) |
^[[?2500l |
disable box mirroring (*) |
^[[0 S |
SPD (ECMA-48): LTR presentation direction |
^[[3 S |
SPD (ECMA-48): RTL presentation direction |
Note: ECMA-48 bidi modes and private bidi modes are experimental. They follow the current status of the bidi mode model of the «BiDi in Terminal Emulators» recommendation.
Note: Box mirroring means a number of graphic characters are added to the set of bidi-mirrored characters as specified by Unicode. These are the unsymmetric characters from ranges Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) and Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F). Others may be added in future versions.
Note: SPD is a deprecated fun feature.
Mintty supports reflow of wrapped lines if the terminal is resized and its
width is changed. This feature, applicable with setting RewrapOnResize,
can be disabled per line, usable for example for prompt lines.
| sequence | rewrap on resize |
|---|---|
^[[?7723l |
disabled |
^[[?7723h |
enabled (default) |
^[[?2027l (*) |
disabled |
^[[?2027h (*) |
enabled (default) |
Note: 2027 is DEPRECATED as some other terminals meanwhile use it differently.
These sequences can be used to hide or show the scrollbar, whereby the window size remains the same but the number of character columns is changed to account for the width of the scrollbar. If the scrollbar is disabled in the options, it will always remain hidden.
| sequence | scrollbar |
|---|---|
^[[?7766l |
hide |
^[[?7766h |
show |
Note: Mintty also supports the xterm-compatible sequences to hide or show the scrollbar, which handle the scrollbar as "outer" to the terminal, adding to the window width but keeping the terminal width unchanged (except in full-screen mode).
— EXPERIMENTAL —
In application scrollbar mode, an application can make use of the window scrollbar; it can set up the scrollbar to reflect the application idea of a scroll position, and receive scrollbar events as control sequences.
This mode is up to future revision. It is currently enabled or disabled implicitly, there is no explicit mode setting sequence.
The application scrollbar indicates a scrollbar view (scroll offset position) within an assumed span of a virtual document (document size, as maintained by the application). The height of the view (viewport height) defaults to the actual terminal size (rows); its difference to the terminal size is kept when resizing the terminal.
Control sequences can set the current view position (scroll offset position of the top end of the marked area in the scrollbar, from 1 to size − height + 1) as well as the total virtual document size (in assumed lines) and optionally the viewport height.
| sequence | scrollbar |
|---|---|
^[[pos;size;height#t
|
set scrollbar view position, virtual size and height |
^[[pos;size#t
|
set scrollbar view position and virtual size |
^[[pos#t
|
set scrollbar view position |
^[[0#t |
disable application scrollbar |
Relative scrollbar movement and absolute positioning are reported with special sequences; for details see Keycodes – Application scrollbar events. See there also for an illustrated explanation of the meaning of pos vs size values.
— EXPERIMENTAL —
A progress indication on the taskbar icon can be switched or controlled with this escape sequence. With a second parameter, the progress value can be controlled explicitly. With only one parameter, automatic progress detection is enabled, scanning the current cursor line for a percentage indication (x%) and enabled by a subsequent relative positioning (e.g. a CR return character) like in text progress indications. Note that automatic progress bar can also be configured (option ProgressBar).
| sequence | comment |
|---|---|
^[[0%q |
disable progress indication |
^[[1%q |
enable progress indication level 1 (green) |
^[[2%q |
enable progress indication level 2 (yellow) |
^[[3%q |
enable progress indication level 3 (red) |
^[[10%q |
reset progress indication as configured |
^[[level;percent%q
|
set progress level (1..3) and value |
^[[;percent%q
|
change progress value only |
^[[8%q |
enable continuous "busy" indication |
An OSC 9;4 sequence (compatible with ConEmu or Windows Terminal)
is available too, alternatively supporting mnemonic parameters.
It supports additional values to switch the progress scan mode
(option ProgressScan).
| sequence | comment |
|---|---|
^[]9;progress;off^G |
disable progress indication |
^[]9;progress;green^G |
enable green progress indication |
^[]9;progress;yellow^G |
enable yellow progress indication |
^[]9;progress;red^G |
enable red progress indication |
^[]9;progress;default^G or empty
|
reset progress indication |
^[]9;progress;level;percent^G
|
set progress level and value |
^[]9;progress;busy^G |
enable busy indication |
^[]9;progress;single^G |
single-line scan mode |
^[]9;progress;multiple^G |
multi-line scan mode |
Mintty includes support for sending mousewheel events to an application without having to enable full xterm mouse tracking, which takes over all mouse events and isn't supported by every application.
Mousewheel reporting only happens on the alternate screen, whereas on the primary screen, the mousewheel scrolls the scrollback buffer. The following two sequences enable or disable mousewheel reporting. It is enabled by default.
| sequence | reporting |
|---|---|
^[[?1007l |
disabled |
^[[?1007h |
enabled |
^[[?7786l |
disabled |
^[[?7786h |
enabled |
The xterm-style sequence mode (1007) is disabled by default but the mintty feature (7786) is enabled by default. The mintty mode can be formatted to private sequences (see below). To support these subtle differences, both can be switched independently.
By default, mousewheel events are reported as cursor key presses, which enables mousewheel scrolling in applications such as less without requiring any configuration.
The cursor keycodes sent for mousewheel events can optionally have the Alt modifier applied, to distinguish them from plain Up/Down key presses. For example, in the nano editor, Alt+Up/Down scrolls the window immediately, whereas plain Up/Down moves the cursor.
Alt-modified mousewheel mode exchanges plain mousewheel events with Alt-modified mousewheel events; it is controlled by these sequences:
| sequence | mode |
|---|---|
^[[?7765l |
unmodified |
^[[?7765h |
Alt-modified |
Alternatively, mousewheel reporting can be switched to application mousewheel mode, where the mousewheel sends its own separate keycodes that allow an application to treat the mousewheel differently from cursor keys:
| event | code |
|---|---|
| line up | ^[Oa |
| line down | ^[Ob |
| page up | ^[[1;2a |
| page down | ^[[1;2b |
Application mousewheel mode is controlled by these sequences:
| sequence | mode |
|---|---|
^[[?7787l |
cursor |
^[[?7787h |
application |
These three mode settings, switched by DECSET/DECRST sequences (xterm 379) enable mouse-controlled editing on the command line (as detected by the cursor position) by sending virtual cursor or erase keystrokes.
| sequence | mode |
|---|---|
^[[?2001h |
left button places cursor on command line |
^[[?2002h |
middle button pastes at current mouse position |
^[[?2003h |
double right-click deletes selection until mouse position |
Note that middle and right button functions only apply if the middle button
is configured to Paste (default) and the right button is configured to
Extend the selection, respectively.
The respective DECRST sequences (ending with l) disable the corresponding mode.
These modes can be preset with option ClicksPlaceCursor initially and on hard reset.
Applications can ask to be notified when the width of the so-called ambiguous width character category changes due to the user changing font.
| sequence | reporting |
|---|---|
^[[?7700l |
disabled |
^[[?7700h |
enabled |
When enabled, ^[[1W is sent when changing to an "ambiguous narrow" font and ^[[2W is sent when changing to an "ambiguous wide" font.
Applications can ask to be notified when the font has been changed.
| sequence | reporting |
|---|---|
^[[?7767l |
disabled |
^[[?7767h |
enabled |
When enabled, ^[[0W is sent when the font has changed,
unless ambiguous width reporting is enabled too, in which case
either ^[[1W or ^[[2W is sent as described above;
so if both reporting modes are enabled, only one report is sent.
Fonts vary widely in their Unicode coverage, i.e. they usually miss glyphs for many characters. The following sequence can be used to enquire about support for a specified list of characters.
^[]7771;?;char0;char1...^G
Characters shall be specified with their decimal Unicode codepoint. Any number of characters can be given. Mintty replies with the same sequence, except that the question mark is replaced with an exclamation mark and that codes for characters that the current font does not have a glyph for are omitted.
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequences can be used to change wide display modes for Indic and a range of long Unicode characters:
| sequence | wide characters |
|---|---|
^[]77119;1^G |
Indic |
^[]77119;2^G |
Long Unicode chars |
^[]77119;0^G |
none |
Setting wide Indic mode, Indic characters with glyphs wider than a single character cell will be displayed in double-width (like CJK characters). Note: This is a switchable option only as there is no authoritative source of information about which Indic characters should be considered wide; most screen applications will not cooperate with this feature as their assumption of character widths is mostly based on the system locale (with the notable exception of the Unicode editor MinEd which supports Indic wide display).
Setting wide long Unicode characters mode, a number of Unicode characters that are supposed to be "wide" or "long" will be displayed in double-width (like CJK characters). See comment above about cooperating applications. The list of long Unicode characters considered "wide" is U+2001, U+2003, U+2014, U+27DD..U+27DE, U+27F5..U+27FF, U+2910, U+296A..U+296D, U+2B33, U+2E0E..U+2E11, U+2E3A..U+2E3B; this list is subject to change in future versions.
— EXPERIMENTAL —
Mintty provides explicit width override as a character attribute,
so an application can enforce single-width characters to be rendered wide
or double-width ("wide") characters to be rendered narrow.
Experimentally, for this purpose the ECMA-48 escape sequences
"Presentation Expand Or Contract" (PEC) CSI num SP Z are used,
with one extension:
| sequence | effect |
|---|---|
^[[0 Z |
default: normal single or double width |
^[[1 Z |
expand: enforce double-cell display |
^[[2 Z |
contract: enforce single-cell display |
^[[22 Z |
zoom down to single-cell display (like setting Charwidth=single) |
^[[2;2 Z |
like ^[[22 Z
|
Mintty supports overstriking characters, with either an SGR attribute or the VK100-compatible DECSET 20.
| sequence | effect |
|---|---|
^[[8:7m |
overstriking character writing mode |
^[[28m |
overwriting character writing mode |
^[[?20h |
overstriking character writing mode |
^[[?20l |
overwriting character writing mode |
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequences can be used to change and query font size:
| sequence | font size |
|---|---|
^[]7770;?^G |
query |
^[]7770;num^G
|
set to num |
^[]7770;+num^G
|
increase by num |
^[]7770;-num^G
|
decrease by num |
^[]7770;^G |
default |
As usual, OSC sequences can also be terminated with ^[\ (ST, the string terminator) instead of ^G.
When the font size is queried, a sequence that would restore the current font size is sent.
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequences can be used to change and query font size:
| sequence | font size |
|---|---|
^[]7777;?^G |
query |
^[]7777;num^G
|
set to num |
^[]7777;+num^G
|
increase by num |
^[]7777;-num^G
|
decrease by num |
^[]7777;^G |
default |
The window size is adapted to zoom with the font size, so the terminal character geometry is kept if possible.
As usual, OSC sequences can also be terminated with ^[\ (ST, the string terminator) instead of ^G.
When the font size is queried, a sequence that would restore the current font and window size is sent.
OSC 50 semantics is extended to alternative fonts and the Tek mode font; it changes the font that is currently selected (and keeps that setting).
Like OSC 50 for font style, this sequence can change the emojis style.
For values, see setting Emojis in the manual.
^[]7750;_emojis-style_^G`
OSC 11 semantics is extended to set or change image background.
| sequence | locale |
|---|---|
^[]11;_image^G
|
set terminal size background image |
^[]11;%image^G
|
set image and scale terminal to its aspect ratio |
^[]11;*image^G
|
set tiled background |
^[]11;+image^G
|
set background scaled with aspect ratio and tiled |
^[]11;=^G |
set background to desktop image (if tiled) |
If the background filename is followed by a comma and a number between 1 and 254, the background image will be dimmed towards the background colour; with a value of 255, the alpha transparency values of the image will be used.
The locale and charset used by the terminal can be queried or changed using these OSC sequences introduced by rxvt-unicode:
| sequence | locale |
|---|---|
^[]701;?^G |
query |
^[]701;loc^G
|
set to loc |
^[]701;^G |
set to default |
The locale string used here should take the same format as in the locale environment variables such as LANG. When the locale is queried, a sequence that would set the current locale is sent, e.g. ^[]701;C.UTF-8^G. An empty loc string selects the locale configured in the options or the environment.
Note: While the terminal character set defines how the terminal interprets
and handles keys and characters, application handling of characters is
usually determined by the locale environment, and they cannot automatically
be tied to each other. If they do not match, character handling will be chaotic.
Consistent changing could be achieved with a shell script like
changecs,
to be declared in your shell profile (e.g. $HOME/.bashrc).
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequence can be used to copy
the window title to the Windows clipboard (like menu function "Copy Title"):
This sequence is disabled by default setting AllowSetSelection=no.
^[]7721^G
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequence can be used to set the window title (alternatively to OSC 2):
^[]l;1^G
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequence can be used to set the window icon from the given file and optional icon index:
^[]I;icon_file,index^G
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequence can be used to inform mintty about the current working directory (as used in the Mac terminal), in order to spawn a new (cloned) terminal window in that directory (e.g. Alt+F2):
^[]7;file-URL^G
The file-URL liberally follows a file: URL scheme; examples are
file:///home/tmp//localhost/home/tmp/home/tmp- (empty) to restore the default behaviour
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequence can be used to set a hyperlink attribute which is opened on Ctrl-click.
| link control | function |
|---|---|
^[]8;;URL^G
|
underlay text with the hyperlink |
^[]8;;^G |
clear hyperlink attribute (terminate hyperlink) |
^[]8;id=ID;URL^G
|
associate instances of hyperlink |
A typical hyperlinked text would be written like
^[]8;;URL^Gtext^[]8;;^G
Using the id= option, multiple parts of hyperlinked text can be
associated to a single hyperlink, so a partially visible or wrapped
hyperlinked text can be produced on the screen.
See Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators
for an example and a discussion.
The following sequence can be used to mark prompt lines in support of two features:
- Shift+cursor-left/right navigates to the previous/next prompt line and scrolls in the scrollback buffer accordingly
- user-defined commands can refer to environment variable MINED_OUTPUT which contains terminal output as limited by previous marker
| marker | function |
|---|---|
^[[?7711h |
mark prompt line (last line in case of multi-line prompt) |
^[[?7711l |
mark secondary prompt line (upper lines) |
A pair of Begin/End Synchronous Update DECSET or DCS sequences suspends the output between them in order to be updated to the screen synchronously. The purpose is that applications can control atomic screen update, in order to avoid screen flickering in certain situations of display update.
| sequence | function |
|---|---|
^[[?2026h |
suspend screen update for 150 ms |
^[P=1s^[\ |
suspend screen update for 150 ms |
^[P=1;Ns^[\
|
suspend screen update for N ms, max 420 ms |
^[[?2026l |
update screen (flush output), end update suspending |
^[P=2s^[\ |
update screen (flush output), end update suspending |
In addition to the legacy Sixel feature, mintty supports graphic image display via iTerm2 controls:
^[]1337;File=par=arg [;par=arg ]*:image^G
| par | arg | comment |
|---|---|---|
| name= | base64-encoded ID | currently not used |
| width= | size (*) | cell/pixel/percentage |
| height= | size (*) | cell/pixel/percentage |
| preserveAspectRatio= | 1 (default) or 0 | only used if width and height are given |
| doNotMoveCursor | 0 (default) or 1 | no-scroll, no-move |
| image | base64-encoded image data |
The width or height size arguments use cell units by default. Optionally, an appended "px" or "%" refers to the number of pixels or the percentage of screen size at the time of image output. Image size persists when resizing the terminal but scales when zooming the cell size.
If both width and height are given, the preserveAspectRatio parameter can select whether to fit the image in the denoted area or stretch it to fill it. If only one of width or height are given, the other dimension is scaled so that the aspect ratio is preserved. If none of width or height are given, the image pixel size is used.
Parameter doNotMoveCursor prevents scrolling if the image output would extend below the bottom margin, and also keeps the cursor at its beginning position after image output. Its effect is the same as DECSET 7780 mode but can be controlled case-by-case on a per-image base.
Image formats supported comprise PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, Exif.
Sixel output is anchored at the current cursor position by default
(Sixel scrolling mode). DECSET 80 (DECSDM) enables Sixel display mode instead,
so Sixel output would start at the top of screen. Note this setting
was reversed from mintty 3.0.1 to mintty 3.5.1, following xterm interpretation
which has meanwhile also been fixed.
(The DECSDM setting can be disabled with option SuppressDEC=80.)
After output of a Sixel image in Sixel scrolling mode, or other image, the final cursor position can be next to the right bottom of the image, below the left bottom of the image (default), or at the line beginning below the image (like xterm). The mintty private sequence 7730 chooses between the latter two options and is overridden by the xterm control sequence 8452.
Image output near the bottom margin may scroll the terminal contents if the image would otherwise extend below the margin. This may be undesirable, so the new mode 7780 can prevent scrolling (but start at the current cursor position, unlike "Sixel display mode"); the image will be cropped instead at the bottom margin. It also keeps the cursor at its beginning position after image output. This affects both sixel and iTerm2 image output. For iTerm2-style image output, see also image parameter doNotMoveCursor to achieve the same effect case-by-case per image.
| sequence | exit position or scrolling behaviour |
|---|---|
^[[?7730h |
line beginning below |
^[[?7730l |
below left bottom |
^[[?8452h |
next to right bottom |
^[[?8452l |
below image |
^[[?7780h |
do not scroll, keep cursor position |
^[[?7780l |
scroll as needed to fit image (default) |
— EXPERIMENTAL —
Mintty supports audio sound output with this OSC sequence:
^[]440;sound [:option ]*^G
where sound is the name of a sound file (.wav) in a mintty configuration subdirectory sounds, or a path name of a .wav file.
| option | comment |
|---|---|
| async | sound playing is decoupled from control processing |
| nostop | sound is not played if an async sound is already playing |
| loop | sound is played in asynchronous endless loop |
An asynchronous sound can be stopped with an empty sound name:
^[]440;^G
Mintty also supports the DECPS Play Sound escape sequence with tone style extension.
| sequence | function |
|---|---|
^[[vol;duration;note[;note...],~
|
play notes (16 supported) |
^[[vol:tone;duration;note[;note...],~
|
set tone style and play |
^[[0:tone,~
|
change tone style only |
The sequence plays the list of notes with the given volume (0...7) and duration (0...255) in units of 1/32 of a second. Supported note values are 1...25, indicating notes c’’ (C5) to c’’’’ (C7).
The range of notes is mirrored to values 101...125 and extended to 41...137, indicating notes ,,C (C0) to c’’’’’ (C8). This extension is experimental and subject to withdrawal in later versions should other standard behaviour be established in terminals.
If the first parameter has a colon-separated sub-parameter appended, it sets the current tone style (which will persist until changed again or reset). Tones 1 to 5 are currently defined, 1 is a sine waveform.
The initial tone style can be preselected by setting PlayTone;
if changed by a sequence, it will be restored by a terminal reset.
Tone value 0 (also the fallback) resorts to the Windows Beep function.
Other tones are only effective if the audio output library libao
is installed.
The VT510 DECSCUSR sequence can be used to control cursor type (shape) and blinking. It takes an optional second parameter (proprietary extension) to set the blinking interval in milliseconds.
^[[arg SPq
^[[arg;blink SPq
| arg | shape | blink |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | default | default |
| 1 | block | yes |
| 2 | block | no |
| 3 | underscore | yes |
| 4 | underscore | no |
| 5 | line | yes |
| 6 | line | no |
| 7 | box | yes |
| 8 | box | no |
Furthermore, the following Linux console sequence can be used to set the size of the active underscore cursor. (Note that the second and third parameters from the Linux sequence are not supported; cursor colour can be set with the OSC 12 sequence.) The sequence also affects the vertical line cursor.
^[[?argc
| arg | size |
|---|---|
| 0 | default |
| 1 | invisible |
| 2 | underscore |
| 3 | lower_third |
| 4 | lower_half |
| 5 | two_thirds |
| 6 | full block |
The following OSC ("operating system command") sequence (xterm 367)
can be used to set the mouse pointer shape of the current mouse mode
(mintty maintains two different mouse pointer shapes, to distinguish
application mouse reporting modes).
Valid values are Windows predefined cursor names
(appstarting, arrow, cross, hand, help, ibeam, icon, no, size, sizeall, sizenesw, sizens, sizenwse, sizewe, uparrow, wait)
or cursor file names which are looked up in subdirectory pointers of
a mintty resource directory; supported file types are .cur, .ico, .ani.
| sequence |
|---|
^[]22;pointer^G
|
The following OSC sequences can be used to set or query the foreground and background variants of the ANSI colours.
| sequence | effect |
|---|---|
^[]7704;index;colour^G
|
set fg and bg variants to same value |
^[]7704;index;fg;bg^G
|
set fg and bg to separate values |
^[]7704;index;?^G
|
query current values |
The index argument has to be in range 0 to 15.
The colour values can be comma-separated decimal triples such as 255,85,0,
X11 colour names, or hexadecimal colour specifications such as #RRGGBB,
rgb:RR/GG/BB, rgb:RRRR/GGGG/BBBB,
cmy:C.C/M.M/Y.Y or
cmyk:C.C/M.M/Y.Y/K.K.
If a colour value is left empty, it is reset to the value in the mintty configuration. Invalid values are ignored.
The query sequence replies with the single-value sequence if the current values for the foreground and background variants are the same, and with the two-value sequence otherwise.
Note: Unlike the xterm-compatible sequence OSC 4, which sets palette colours including ANSI colours, OSC 7704 can be used to change ANSI colours only, leaving the associated palette colours 0..15 unchanged, so you could select different colours with SGR 30..37 etc distinct from SGR 38:5 etc.
Mintty supports the following DEC, xterm and mintty Media Copy sequences:
| sequence | effect |
|---|---|
^[[0i |
print screen to default printer |
^[[5i |
redirect output to printer |
^[[4i |
end output to printer |
^[[?5i |
copy output to printer |
^[[?4i |
end output to printer |
^[[10i |
save screen as HTML |
^[[12i |
save screen as PNG image |