mintty(1)mintty(1)NAMEmintty - Cygwin terminal emulator
SYNOPSISmintty [OPTION]... [ - | PROGRAM [ARG]... ]
DESCRIPTION
Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user
interface and minimalist design. Its terminal emulation is largely
compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server.
INVOCATION
If a program name is supplied on the command line, this is executed
with any additional arguments given. Otherwise, mintty looks for a
shell to execute in the SHELL environment variable. If that is not
set, it reads the user's default shell setting from /etc/passwd. As a
last resort, it falls back to /bin/sh. If a single dash is specified
instead of a program name, the shell is invoked as a login shell.
OPTIONS
The standard GNU option formats are accepted, with single dashes intro‐
ducing short options and double dashes introducing long options.
-c, --config FILENAME
Read settings from the specified configuration file, in addition
to /etc/minttyrc and ~/.minttyrc.
-e, --exec PROGRAM [ARG ...]
Execute the specified program in the terminal session and pass
on any additional arguments.
This option is present for compatibility with other terminal
emulators only. It can be omitted, in which case the first non-
option argument, if any, is taken as the name of the program to
execute.
-h, --hold never|start|error|always
Determine whether to keep the terminal window open when the com‐
mand has finished and no more processes are connected to the
terminal. The argument can be abbreviated to a single letter.
By default, the window is closed immediately, except if the
child process has exited with status 255, which is used to indi‐
cate failure to execute the shell command. (Exit status 255 is
also used by ssh to indicate connection errors.)
Alternatively, the window can be set to never stay open, to
always stay open, or to stay open only if the child process ter‐
minates with an error, i.e. with a non-zero exit status or due
to a signal indicating a runtime error.
-i, --icon FILE[,INDEX]
Load the window icon from an executable, DLL, or icon file. The
optional comma-separated index can be used to select a particu‐
lar icon in a file with multiple icons.
-l, --log FILE|-
Copy all output into the specified log file, or standard output
if a dash is given instead of a file name. (See also script(1)
for a more flexible logging tool.)
-o, --option NAME=VALUE
Override the named config file option with the given value, e.g.
-o ScrollbackLines=1000.
-p, --position X,Y
Open the window with its top left corner at the specified coor‐
dinates.
-s, --size COLS,ROWS
Set the default size of the window in character columns and
rows.
-t, --title TITLE
Use TITLE as the initial window title. By default, the title is
set to the executed command.
-u, --utmp
Create a utmp entry.
-w, --window normal|min|max|full|hide
Set the initial window state: normal, minimised, maximised, full
screen, or hidden.
--class CLASS
Use CLASS as the window class name of the main window. This
allows scripting tools to distinguish different mintty
instances. The default is "mintty".
-H, --help
Display a brief help message and exit.
-V, --version
Print version information and exit.
USAGE
Mintty tries to adhere to both Windows and Unix usage conventions.
Where they conflict, an option is usually provided. This section pri‐
marily describes the default configuration; see the CONFIGURATION sec‐
tion on how it can be customised.
Menus
The context menu can be opened by right-clicking the mouse or by press‐
ing the Menu key that is normally located next to the right Ctrl key.
Mintty also adds a couple of items to the window menu, which can be
accessed by clicking on the program icon or pressing Alt+Space.
Both menus have an entry that leads to the options dialog for changing
mintty's configuration.
Copy & paste
Screen contents can be selected by holding down the left mouse button
and dragging the mouse. If Alt is held down before the left mouse but‐
ton, a rectangular block instead of whole lines will be selected. The
selection can be extended by holding down Shift while left-clicking.
Double-clicking or triple-clicking selects a whole word or line,
whereby word selection includes special characters that commonly appear
in file names and URLs.
By default, selected text is automatically copied to the clipboard.
This can be disabled on the Mouse page of the options dialog. Selected
text can also be copied manually using either the Copy menu command,
the Ctrl+Ins keyboard shortcut, or the middle mouse button combined
with Shift.
The selected region is copied as "rich text" as well as normal text,
which means it can be pasted with colours and formatting into applica‐
tions that support it, e.g. word processors.
The window title can be copied using the Copy Title command in the win‐
dow menu.
The clipboard contents can be pasted using either the Paste menu com‐
mand, the Shift+Ins keyboard shortcut, or the middle mouse button. Not
only text but also files and directories can be pasted, whereby the
latter are inserted as Cygwin file names. Shell quoting is added to
file names that contain spaces or special characters.
Drag & drop
Text, files and directories can be dropped into the mintty window.
They are inserted in the same way as if they were pasted from the clip‐
board.
Opening files, directories and URLs
Files, directories and URLs can be opened either by holding Ctrl while
left-clicking on them, or by selecting them and choosing the Open com‐
mand from the context menu. Please note that opening a file or direc‐
tory with a relative path only works correctly if the path refers to
the current working directory of the process invoked by mintty.
Font zoom
The font size can be increased or decreased using the keyboard short‐
cuts Ctrl+plus and Ctrl+minus, or by holding Ctrl while rolling the
mousewheel. Ctrl+zero returns the font size to the default.
Full screen
Full screen mode can be toggled using either the Full Screen command in
the menu or either of the Alt+Enter and Alt+F11 keyboard shortcuts.
Default size
If the window has been resized, it can be returned to the default size
set in the Window pane of the options using the Default size command in
the menu or the Alt+F10 shortcut.
Reset
Sometimes a faulty application or printing a binary file will leave the
terminal in an unusable state. In that case, resetting the terminal's
state via the Reset command in the menu or the Alt+F8 keyboard shortcut
may help.
Scrolling
Mintty has a scrollback buffer that can hold up to 10000 lines in the
default configuration. It can be accessed using the scrollbar, the
mouse wheel, or the keyboard. Hold the Shift key while pressing the Up
and Down arrow keys to scroll line-by-line or the PageUp and PageDown
keys to scroll page-by-page.
Flip screen
Applications such as editors and file viewers normally use a terminal
feature called the alternate screen, which is a second screen buffer
without scrollback. When they exit, they switch back to the primary
screen to restore the command line as it was before invoking the appli‐
cation.
The Flip Screen menu command and Alt+F12 shortcut allow looking at the
primary screen while the alternate screen is active, and vice versa.
For example, this allows to refer to past commands while editing a
file.
Switching session
The Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts can be used to switch between
mintty windows. Minimised windows are skipped.
Closing a session
Clicking the window's close button, pressing Alt+F4, or choosing Close
from the window menu sends a SIGHUP signal to the process running in
mintty, which normally causes it to exit.
That signal can be ignored, though, in which case the program might
have to be forced to terminate by sending a SIGKILL signal instead.
This can be done by holding down Shift when using the close button,
shortcut or menu item.
Mouse tracking
When an application activates mouse tracking, mouse events are sent to
the application rather than being treated as window events. This is
indicated by the mouse pointer changing from an I shape to an arrow.
Holding down Shift overrides mouse tracking mode and sends mouse events
to the window instead, so that e.g. text can be selected and the con‐
text menu can be accessed.
Alt codes
The Windows Alt+Numpad method for entering character codes is sup‐
ported, whereby the Alt key has to be held while entering the character
code. Only the first key has to be on the numpad; subsequent digits
can be entered both on the numpad or the main part of the keyboard.
If the first key is the '+' on the numpad, the code is interpreted as
hexadecimal, whereby digits A through F can be entered using the letter
keys. If the first key is a zero, the code is interpreted as octal.
If the first key is any other digit from 1 to 9, the code is inter‐
preted as decimal.
For UTF-8 and other Unicode encodings such as GB18030, the entered code
is interpreted as a Unicode codepoint and encoded accordingly before it
is sent. For other encodings, the entered code is sent as is. If it
doesn't fit into one byte, it is sent as multiple bytes, with the the
most significant non-zero byte first.
Shortcuts
An overview of all the keyboard shortcuts.
Scrollback
- Shift+Up: Line up
- Shift+Down: Line down
- Shift+PgUp: Page up
- Shift+PgDn: Page down
- Shift+Home: Top
- Shift+End: Bottom
Copy and paste
- Ctrl+Ins: Copy
- Shift+Ins: Paste
- Ctrl+Shift+Ins: Copy and paste
Window commands
- Alt+F2: New
- Alt+F4: Close
- Alt+F8: Reset
- Alt+F10: Default size
- Alt+F11 or Alt+Enter: Full screen
- Alt+F12: Flip screen
- Alt+Space: Window menu
- Ctrl+Tab: Next window
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab: Previous window
Font zoom
- Ctrl+plus: Zoom in
- Ctrl+minus: Zoom out
- Ctrl+zero: Back to configured font size
Ctrl+Shift+letter shortcuts
An alternative set of shortcuts for clipboard and window com‐
mands using Ctrl+Shift+letter combinations is available. These
can be enabled on the Keys pane of the options dialog.
- Ctrl+Shift+C: Copy
- Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste
- Ctrl+Shift+N: New
- Ctrl+Shift+W: Close
- Ctrl+Shift+R: Reset
- Ctrl+Shift+D: Default size
- Ctrl+Shift+F: Full screen
- Ctrl+Shift+S: Flip screen
CONFIGURATION
Mintty has a graphical options dialog that can be reached via the con‐
text menu or the window menu. As usual, both the Apply and OK buttons
apply any changes made, but OK also closes the dialog. Cancel discards
changes.
In configuration files, settings are stored as NAME=VALUE pairs, with
one per line. By default, they are read from /etc/minttyrc and
~/.minttyrc. Additional configuration files can be specified using the
--config command line option. These are read in order, with settings
in later files overriding those in earlier ones. Configuration changes
are saved to the last file specified, or ~/.minttyrc if none is given.
Settings can also be specified on the command line using --option.
The following sections explain the settings on each pane of the options
dialog, followed by settings that do not appear in the dialog. For
each setting, its name in the config file is shown in parentheses,
along with its default value.
Looks
Settings affecting mintty's appearance.
Colours
Clicking on one of the buttons here opens the colour selection
dialog. In the settings, colours are represented as comma-sepa‐
rated RGB triples with decimal 8-bit values ranging from 0 to
255. X-style hexadecimal colour specifications such as #RRGGBB
or rgb:RR/GG/BB can be used as well.
- Foreground (ForegroundColour=191,191,191)
- Background (BackgroundColour=0,0,0)
- Cursor (CursorColour=191,191,191)
Transparency (Transparency=off)
Window transparency level, with the following choices:
- Off
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Glass
The Glass option is only available on Vista and above with desk‐
top compositing enabled. To make this reasonably usable, the
glass colour needs to be set to be as dark as possible in the
Windows control panel: choose Personalize from the desktop con‐
text menu, click on Window Color, turn the colour intensity up
to the maximum, show the colour mixer, and turn the brightness
down to black.
Numeric transparency values ranging from 4 to 254 can be speci‐
fied in config files or on the command line. (Values below 4
are multiplied by 16, for backward compatibility reasons.)
Opaque when focused (OpaqueWhenFocused=no)
Enable to make the window opaque when it is active (to avoid
background distractions when working in it).
Cursor (CursorType=line)
The following cursor types are available:
- Line
- Block
- Underscore
The line cursor is displayed with the width set in the Accessi‐
bility Options control panel.
Cursor blink (CursorBlinks=yes)
If enabled, the cursor blinks at the rate set in the Keyboard
control panel.
Text
Settings controlling text display.
Font selection
Clicking on the Select button opens a dialog where the font and
its properties can be chosen. Font styles other than Bold are
ignored. In the config file, this corresponds to the following
entries:
- Font (Font=Lucida Console)
- Style (FontIsBold=no)
- Size (FontHeight=9)
Show bold as font (BoldAsFont=no)
When this option is enabled, the ANSI bold (or 'intense') text
attribute is shown as a bold-style font. Where a bold variant
of the selected font that has the same width as the base font is
available, that is used; otherwise, the bolding is simulated by
rendering the text twice with a one-pixel offset.
Show bold as colour (BoldAsColour=yes)
By default, text with the ANSI bold attribute set is displayed
with a different colour, usually with increased brightness.
This can be disabled here.
Note that when BoldAsFont is enabled, only bold text in one of
the eight ANSI colours has its colour changed, i.e. bold text
without an explicitly spefified colour is shown with a bold font
only. This matches xterm behaviour.
This option also controls how the 'half-bright' (or 'dim') text
attribute is displayed: if it is on, half-bright text is shown
with halved foreground colour brightness; otherwise, it is shown
by blending the foreground colour with the background colour.
Allow blinking (AllowBlinking=no)
When text blinking is disabled, as it is by default, the blink
attribute is displayed as a bold background colour instead.
Font smoothing (FontSmoothing=default)
Select the amount of font smoothing from the following choices:
- Default: Use Windows setting.
- None: With all the jaggies.
- Partial: Greyscale anti-aliasing.
- Full: Subpixel anti-aliasing ("ClearType").
Locale (Locale=)
The locale setting consists of a lowercase two-letter or three-
letter language code followed by a two-letter country code, for
instance en_US or zh_CN. The Windows default system and user
locales are shown in the drop-down list for this setting.
Alternatively, the language-neutral "C" locale can be selected.
If no locale is set here, which is the default, mintty uses the
locale and character set specified via the environment variables
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or LANG.
If the locale option is set, however, it will override any envi‐
ronment variable setting: LC_ALL and the LC_* variables for spe‐
cific locale categories are cleared, while LANG is set according
to the selected locale and character set.
Character set (Charset=)
The character set to be used for encoding input and decoding
output. If no locale is set, this setting is ignored.
While changing the character set takes effect immediately for
text input and ouput, it does not affect the processes already
running in mintty. This is because the environment variables of
a running process cannot be changed from outside that process.
Therefore mintty needs to be restarted for a character set
change to take full effect.
Keys
Settings controlling keyboard behaviour.
Backspace sends ^H (BackspaceSendsBS=no)
By default, mintty sends ^? as the keycode for the backspace
key. If this option is enabled, ^H is sent instead. This also
changes the Ctrl+Backspace code from ^_ to ^?.
Ctrl+LeftAlt is AltGr (CtrlAltIsAltGr=no)
The AltGr key on non-US Windows systems is a strange beast:
pressing it is synonymous with pressing the left Ctrl key and
the right Alt key at the same time, and Windows programs usually
treat any Ctrl+Alt combination as AltGr.
Some programs, however, chief among them Microsoft's very own
Office, do not treat Ctrl+LeftAlt as AltGr, so that Ctrl+LeftAlt
combinations can be used in command shortcuts even when a key
has an AltGr character binding.
By default, mintty follows Office's approach, because a number
of terminal programs make use of Ctrl+Alt shortcuts. The "stan‐
dard" Windows behaviour can be restored by ticking the checkbox
here.
The setting makes no difference for keys without AltGr key bind‐
ings (e.g. any key on the standard US layout).
Copy and Paste shortcuts (ClipShortcuts=yes)
Checkbox for enabling the clipboard shortcuts Ctrl+Ins for copy‐
ing and Shift+Ins for pasting.
Menu and Full Screen shortcuts (WindowShortcuts=yes)
Checkbox for enabling the Alt+Space and Alt+Enter shortcuts for
showing the window menu and toggling full screen mode.
Switch window shortcuts (SwitchShortcuts=yes)
Checkbox for enabling the Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts
for switching between mintty windows.
Zoom shortcuts (ZoomShortcuts=yes)
Checkbox for enabling the font zooming shortcuts
Ctrl+plus/minus/zero.
Alt+Fn shortcuts (AltFnShortcuts=yes)
Checkbox for enabling the use of combinations of Alt and func‐
tions keys as shortcuts, for example Alt+F4 for closing the win‐
dow or Alt+F11 fortoggling full screen mode. Disable to have
Alt+Fn combinations sent to applications instead.
Ctrl+Shift+letter shortcuts (CtrlShiftShortcuts=no)
Checkbox for enabling alternative clipboard and window command
shortcuts using Ctrl+Shift+letter combinations such as
Ctrl+Shift+V for paste or Ctrl+Shift+N for starting a new ses‐
sion.
These can replace the Ctrl/Shift+Ins and Alt+Fn shortcuts,
whereby they show up in menus only if the corresponding default
shortcuts are disabled.
See the shortcuts section above for the list of shortcuts con‐
trolled by this option. When it is disabled, Ctrl+Shift+letter
combinations are sent to applications as C1 control characters
instead.
Mouse
Settings controlling mouse support.
Copy on select (CopyOnSelect=yes)
If enabled, the region selected with the mouse is copied to the
clipboard as soon as the mouse button is released, thus emulat‐
ing X Window behaviour.
Copy as rich text (CopyAsRTF=yes)
If this option is enabled, which it is by default, text is
copied to the clipboard in rich text format (RTF) in addition to
plain text format. RTF preserves colours and styles when past‐
ing text into applications that support it, e.g. word proces‐
sors.
Clicks place command line cursor (ClicksPlaceCursor=no)
If enabled, the command line cursor can be placed by pressing
the left mouse button. This works by sending the number of cur‐
sor keycodes needed to get to the destination.
Right click action (RightClickAction=menu)
Action to take when the right mouse button is pressed.
- Paste: Paste the clipboard contents.
- Extend: Extend the selected region.
- Show menu: Show the context menu.
If this is set to Paste, the middle button extends the selected
region instead of pasting the clipboard. If it is set to Extend,
a left click with Shift pressed pastes the clipboard instead of
extending the selection.
Default click target (ClicksTargetApp=yes)
This applies to application mouse mode, i.e. when the applica‐
tion activates xterm-style mouse reporting. In that mode, mouse
clicks can be sent either to the application to process as it
sees fit, or to the window for the usual actions such as select
and paste.
- Window
- Application
Modifier key for overriding default (ClickTargetMod=shift)
The modifier key selected here can be used to override the click
target in application mouse mode. With the default settings,
clicks are sent to the application and Shift needs to be held to
trigger window actions instead.
The Off setting disables overriding.
- Shift
- Ctrl
- Alt
- Off
Window
Window properties.
Columns (Columns=80)
Default width of the window, in character cells.
Rows (Rows=24)
Default height of the window, in character cells.
Current size
Pressing this button sets the default width and height to the
window's current size.
Scrollback lines (ScrollbackLines=10000)
The maximum number of lines to keep in the scrollback buffer.
Scrollbar (Scrollbar=right)
The scrollbar can be shown on either side of the window or just
hidden. By default, it is shown on the right-hand side.
- Left
- None
- Right
Modifier for scrolling (ScrollMod=shift)
The modifier key that needs to be pressed together with the
arrow up/down, PgUp/PgDn, or Home/End keys to access the scroll‐
back buffer. The default is Shift. The Off setting disables
scrolling with keyboard shortcuts.
- Shift
- Ctrl
- Alt
- Off
PgUp and PgDn scroll without modifier (PgUpDnScroll=no)
If this is enabled, the scrollback buffer can be accessed by
just pressing PgUp or PgDn, without the 'modifier for scrolling'
selected above. If the modifier is pressed anyway, plain
PgUp/PgDn keycodes are sent to the application. This option
does not affect the arrow keys or Home/End keys.
Terminal
Terminal emulation settings.
Type (Term=xterm)
The terminal type. This determines the setting of the TERM
environment variable at mintty startup. Choices available from
the dropdown list are xterm, xterm-256color, xterm-vt220, vt220,
and vt100.
If the setting contains "vt220", xterm VT220-style function key
mode is enabled instead of the default PC-style function key
mode. (This can otherwise be set with the DECSET 1061 control
sequence.)
Apart from that, this setting has no effect on mintty's terminal
emulation, i.e. all the features are always available. However,
the TERM setting does tell applications what features they can
use.
The xterm-256color setting enables 256-color mode in some appli‐
cations, but may not be recognised at all by others, which is
why plain xterm is the default.
Answerback (Answerback=)
The answerback string is sent in response to the ^E (ENQ) char‐
acter. By default, this is empty.
Bell The three checkboxes here determine what effects the bell char‐
acter ^G has. Only taskbar highlighting is enabled by default.
- Sound (BellSound=no): Play the system's default beep sound.
- Flash (BellFlash=no): Briefly invert the foreground and back‐
ground colours.
- Highlight in taskbar (BellTaskbar=yes): Change the colour of
mintty's taskbar entry if the mintty window is not active.
Printer (Printer=)
The ANSI standard defines control sequences for sending text to
a printer, which are used by some terminal applications such as
the mail reader pine. The Windows printer to send such text to
can be selected here. By default, printing is disabled.
Prompt about running processes on close (ConfirmExit=yes)
If enabled, ask for confirmation when the close button or Alt+F4
is pressed and the command invoked by mintty still has child
processes. This is intended to help avoid closing programs
accidentally.
Command line
The settings here are config file versions of command line options
described in the OPTIONS section. They do not appear in the options
dialog.
Holding the window open (Hold=start)
The Hold setting determines whether to keep the terminal window
open when the command has finished and no more processes are
connected to the terminal. It takes the following values:
- never: Don't keep the window open.
- start: Only keep the window open if the command exited with
status 255, which is used to indicate failure to start the com‐
mand. This is the default.
- error: Keep the window open if the command exited with a non-
zero status or it was terminated by a signal indicating a run‐
time error.
- always: Always keep the window open.
Window icon (Icon=)
The Icon setting with format FILE[,INDEX] allows to load the
window icon from an executable, DLL, or icon file. The optional
comma-separated index can be used to select a particular icon in
a file with multiple icons. If the setting is empty, as it is
by default, mintty's program icon is used.
Log file (Log=)
The Log setting can be used to specify a log file that all out‐
put is copied into. If it is empty, as it is by default, no
logging is done. See also the script(1) utility for a more
flexible logging solution.
Window title (Title=)
The Title setting can be used to determine the initial window
title. If it is empty, as it is by default, the title is set to
the command being run.
Utmp record (Utmp=no)
If enabled, an entry for the session is written into the sys‐
tem's utmp file for recording logins, so that the session
appears for example in the output of the who(1) utility.
Initial window state (Window=normal)
This setting determines how the terminal window should be shown
at startup:
- normal (default)
- min (minimised)
- max (maximised)
- full (full screen)
- hide (invisible)
Window position (X=, Y=)
X and Y are integer settings that can be used to determine the
initial coordinates of the top left corner of the terminal win‐
dow. By default, these are unset, which means that the position
suggested by the window manager is used.
Window class name (Class=mintty)
The Class setting determines the name of the window class of the
terminal window. This can be used to help Windows scripting
tools such as AutoHotKey to distinguish different mintty win‐
dows. The name defaults to "mintty".
Hidden settings
The following settings appear neither in the options dialog nor as com‐
mand line options, which means they can only be set in config files or
using the --option command line option.
Application ID (AppID=)
Windows 7 and above use the application ID for grouping taskbar
items. By default this setting is empty, in which case Windows
groups taskbar items automatically based on their icon and com‐
mand line. This can be overridden by setting the AppID to a
custom string, in which case windows with the same AppID are
grouped together.
Note that Windows shortcut files have their own AppID. Hence,
if an AppID is specified in the mintty settings, but not on a
taskbar-pinned shortcut for invoking mintty, clicking the pinned
shortcut will result in a separate taskbar item for the new
mintty window, rather than being grouped with the shortcut. To
avoid this, the shortcut's AppID has to be set to the same
string, which can be done using the win7appid utility available
from http://win7appid.googlecode.com.
Word selection characters (WordChars=)
By default, this string setting is empty, in which case double-
click word selection uses the default algorithm that is geared
towards picking out file names and URLs.
If a string is specified here, word selection only picks out
characters in the string along with alphanumeric characters.
For example, specifying just the underscore character (Word‐
Chars=_) would allow selecting identifiers in many programming
languages.
Use system colours (UseSystemColours=no)
If this is set, the Windows-wide colour settings are used
instead of the foreground, background, and cursor colours chosen
on the Looks page of the options dialog.
IME cursor colour (IMECursorColour=)
The cursor colour can be set to change when the Input Method
Editor (IME) for entering characters not available directly on
the keyboard is active. The setting is a RGB triplet such as
255,0,0 for bright red.
By default, this is unset, which means that the cursor colour
does not change. The colour can also be changed using xterm's
OSC 4 control sequence with colour number 262.
ANSI colours
These are the 16 ANSI colour settings along with their default
values. Colours are represented as comma-separated RGB triples
with decimal 8-bit values ranging from 0 to 255. X-style hexa‐
decimal colour specifications such as #RRGGBB or rgb:RR/GG/BB
can be used as well.
- Black=0,0,0
- Red=191,0,0
- Green=0,191,0
- Yellow=191,191,0
- Blue=0,0,191
- Magenta=191,0,191
- Cyan=0,191,191
- White=191,191,191
- BoldBlack=64,64,64
- BoldRed=255,64,64
- BoldGreen=64,255,64
- BoldYellow=255,255,64
- BoldBlue=96,96,255
- BoldMagenta=255,64,255
- BoldCyan=64,255,255
- BoldWhite=255,255,255
LIMITATIONS
Console issue
Mintty is not a full replacement for the Windows console window that
Cygwin uses by default. Like xterm and rxvt, mintty communicates with
the child process through a pseudo terminal device, which Cygwin emu‐
lates using Windows pipes. This means that native Windows command line
programs started in mintty see a pipe rather than a console device. As
a consequence, such programs often disable interactive input. Also,
direct calls to low-level Win32 console functions will fail. Programs
that access the console as a file should be fine though.
Termcap/terminfo
Mintty does not have its own termcap or terminfo entries; instead, it
simply pretends to be an xterm.
Missing xterm features
Mintty is nowhere near as configurable as xterm. Of xterm's keyboard
modes, only the default PC-style and VT220-style are available. 8-bit
control characters are not supported, nor are ISO2022 character sets.
There is no Tektronix 4014 emulation. Mouse highlighting mode is not
implemeted.
The majority of xterm's many control sequences is implemented, but
quite a few are missing. Significant omissions should be reported as
bugs.
SEE ALSO
Additional information can be found on the wiki on the mintty project
page, for example:
- Keycodes: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Keycodes
- Control sequences: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs
- Tips: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Tips
- Contributors: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Credits
- Changelog: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Changes
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2013 Andy Koppe.
Mintty is released under the terms of the the GNU General Public
License version 3 or later. See http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl/html for
the license text.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
CONTACT
Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the issue tracker at
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues. Questions can be sent to the
discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss or
the Cygwin mailing list at cygwin@cygwin.com.
mintty 1.1.3 2013-04-07 mintty(1)
