The program icon comes from KDE's Konsole. Mintty is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. General Cygwin questions should be sent to the Cygwin mailing list. The discussion group for all things mintty is mintty-discuss. Vote for any issues you'd particularly like to see addressed by starring them. Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the issue tracker. Keycodes, control sequences and some random tips can be found on the wiki. Invoking mintty with the -help option shows a summary of available command line options. A PDF version of the manual is also available. The setup.exe package ships with a manual page that can be accessed with man mintty. While native console programs with simple text output are usually fine, interactive programs often have problems, although sometimes there are workarounds. Similarly to other pty-based Cygwin terminals, however, mintty is not a full replacement for the Windows Command Prompt. Mintty works on all Windows NT-based system, including Windows 7. This is not a supported way of obtaining and installing a package. I downloaded a version of mintty 1.0.3 from a download site and unzipped all the content but no mintty executable can be found there either. However, it can't be found anywhere on the hard drive. Window transparency, including glass effect on Vista and 7. Wide character display and Windows IME support. Comprehensive character encoding support, including UTF-8. Drag & drop of text, files and folders.Ībility to open files and URLs with Ctrl+click. Native Windows user interface with a simple options dialog.Įasy copy & paste. Features include: Xterm-compatible terminal emulation. In MSYS, mintty can be installed with mingw-get install msys-mintty. The Cygwin installer creates a shortcut for mintty in the Windows start menu. It can be downloaded from here or it can be installed through Cygwin's setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category.

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin and Cygwin derivatives such as MSYS.

I chose the installation directory, the directory where to download the packages, and one mirror server. After download the Cygwin setup files (either the 32-bit version setup-x86.exe or the 64-bit version setup-x86_64.exe) from the Cygwin website, I ran it to install Cygwin on my 64-bit Windows 7. Like xterm and rxvt, mintty communicates with the child process through a pseudo terminal device, which Cygwin emulates using Windows pipes. Cygwin running in a Windows console window). Mintty is not a full replacement for Cygwin Console (i.e. How To Improve Your Cygwin Console With Mintty YatriTrivedi July 21, 2011, 6:00am EDT Cygwin’s great for getting some Linux command-line goodness in Windows, but using the Windows Shell to access it kills some of that magic.

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