mintty

Keyboard handling

• Tweak revised AltGr handling to avoid sticky Ctrl state (#1273, ~#1266).

Misc

• Fix version tag and package building problems.

Configuration

• Prevent saving changed settings to /etc/minttyrc.

Terminal features

• Restore wrap modes on return from VT52 mode.
• Fix scrolling artefacts at overhanging emojis with setting EmojiPlacement=full (#1261).
• Drop exemptions from emoji space expansion (numbers and flag letters, ~#1104).
• Escape sequence DECST8C reset tab stops (xterm 389, VT510).
• Escape sequence DECRQDE request display extent (xterm 387, VT340).
• Support OSC 52 ? to paste base64-encoded clibboard (#1264, xterm).
• Support OSC 52 to clear clibboard (xterm).
• Fixed DSR Locator status response.

Text rendering

• Render dim attribute as a Light font variation if available.
• Tentatively changing default bold rendering as bold font.
• Fix CJK quote marks auto-expansion for FontChoice-set fonts (#1271).
• Fix artefacts from auto-narrowing end-of-line overhang (#1179).

Keyboard handling

• Revise AltGr handling to support flexible right-Alt+left-Ctrl combinations (#1266).

Misc

• Support fallback to legacy wslbridge for old Windows versions (mintty/wsltty#350).
• Fix CopyTab=yes crash condition (#1269).
• Optional confirmation for pasting multi-line clipboard contents (#1268).
• Unsqueeze the Options dialog slightly.
• Ctrl+Win+mouse-scroll zooms font even if ZoomMouse is off.

Desktop integration

• Avoid taskbar icon width twitching in Windows 11 (#1263).

Configuration

• New option AllowPasteSelection (#1264).
• Drop AllowSetSelection from interactive Options menu (~#1264).
• New option TabFont.
• New option DimAsFont.
• Add "Show dim as font" to options dialog.
• Change default setting BoldAsFont=yes.
• New option ConfirmMultiLinePasting (#1268).

Terminal features

• Dropped DSR 53 (legacy xterm mistake, dropped in xterm 389).
• HTML screen dump supports subscript or superscript.
• HTML screen dump supports DEC double-width lines and pairs of double-height lines.
• Tweak DECRQCRA Rectangular Checksum to match xterm (~#1225, xterm 390).
• Fix status area refresh, especially after restoring a minimized window.
• Workaround for rendering failure of top-left background text on background image.
• Fix invisible and blinking attributes on background image.
• Added XTQMODKEYS to DECRQSS (#1189, xterm 389).

Misc

• Fix handling of options to be saved (#1246, #1247).
• Tune and fix click-opening URL (mintty/wsltty#346, #1254).
• Fix layout of Options dialog Selection pane (#1257).

Window handling

• Fix instable window switching after minimize/restore (#1242, #1249).
• Fix window switching (Ctrl+ALT) after minimize/restore (#1242).
• New rewrap per-line disable mode DECRST 7723 (deprecated 2027, #1255).
• Semi-workaround for transparency loss when resizing unfocused grid-snapped window (#1256).

Configuration

• New user-definable key Alt for option KeyFunctions (#1245).
• New user-definable function intr (~#1245).

Misc

• Fix memory leak (mintty/wsltty#340) caused by dynamic emoji checking.
• Revise and unify handling of dynamic pathnames for terminal control.
• Guard network access via dynamic pathnames.

Unicode and Emoji data

• Unicode 15.1 update.
• Adapt getemojis script to reduced format of unicode.org emoji charts (#1240).

Terminal features

• Tweak mousewheel scrolling: do not mix line and page events (#1234).
• Tweak mousewheel scrolling: page scrolling one line less, consistent with keyboard paging (#1234).
• Send Alt modifier with mousewheel events (#1234).
• New DECSET 7765 to exchange normal and Alt-modified mouse wheel scrolling (#1234).
• Tweak double-click filename/URL selection with colon (#1236).
• Filter paste characters causing interrupt signals, according to the current stty settings.
• Fixed background in HTML screen dump.

Window handling

• Better error handling if click-opening file fails.
• Save image file with proper access rights.

Font rendering

• Support size adjustment of alternative fonts, for use as secondary fonts (mintty/wsltty#341).

Configuration

• Alternative font specification supports initial + for size increase (mintty/wsltty#341).
• New option GuardNetworkPaths.
• Added STTY to FilterPasteControls settings (xterm 388), as default.

Pathname handling

• Fix file link detection (#1208), tweak URL detection (#1209).
• Restore opening of Windows path names (#1219; broken since 2.8.1).

Terminal features

• Fix setup of initial status line if monitor DPI is 96.
• ESC/Enter restore alphanumeric keyboard input mode while IME is active (#1223).
• OSC 50 query response is "?" after font setting failed.
• Fix DECRQCRA Rectangular Checksum attribute handling.
• Added DECSACE to DECRQSS (xterm 383).
• Optionally indicate keyboard layout code in status line.
• Fix image display (iTerm2 protocol) in "Sixel display mode".
• New DECSET 7780 "Image display mode" to keep cursor position on image output (#1228).
• New parameter doNotMoveCursor for iTerm2-style image output (#1228).

Window handling

• Revamp window operations, esp max/fullscreen, to not raise to foreground.
• Sanitize Alt+TAB behaviour: Group taskbar icons by setting -o Class (#1207).
• Handling transparency in tab sets (#1152, #1069, ~#1128).
• Workaround against dropping fullscreen on DPI change (#1226).
• Preserve "normal position" (unzoomed) during screen changes (~#1226).

Configuration

• New user-definable function compose (#1211).
• New option setting ComposeKey=capslock (#1211).
• New option ConfirmReset to guard confirm dialog on interactive reset (#1173).
• Support changed Drag-and-drop format for some theme file downloads.
• New option KeyAlphaMode (#1223).
• New option -Rw to report the Windows window id.
• New option StatusDebug to include debug information in the status line.

Terminal features

• Tweak response code to XTQALLOWED OSC 60 and XTQDISALLOWED OSC 61 (xterm 378).
• Readline mouse modes (DECSET 2001 / 2002 / 2003, xterm 379).
• Hover and open URL: support parentheses (#1196).
• Fix cursor artefacts in connection with ClicksPlaceCursor=yes.
• Fix mouse-paste while still selecting.
• Support multi-line progress detection.

Windows integration

• Manage user-set HOME for calling Windows from WSL (mintty/wsltty#324, ~mintty/wsltty#76).
• Support OSC 7 directory cloning if cloning WSL window while in rootfs.

Configuration

• Status line is configurable in Options menu, switchable from context menu.
• New user-definable function toggle-tabbar (#1201).
• Setting ClicksPlaceCursor presets all readline mouse modes.
• Dynamic support for flags emojis, deployment script (~mintty/wsltty#321).
• MINTTY_DEBUG=C mintty ... will list loaded config files (#1181).
• New option ProgressScan.

Terminal features

• Fixed double-width characters not to wrap if auto-wrap disabled.
• TAB may wrap to next line, or cause subsequent wrap, if enabled (#1182).
• Fixed auto-wrap behaviour in double-width lines.
• Overstriking character writing mode also switched with DECSET 20 (VK100, #1184).
• Fixed OSC 7 (set working directory) to handle ~ prefix.
• Added XTQMODKEYS state query (xterm 373).
• Withdrawn DEC private SGRs (/#1171, conflict with XTQMODKEYS).
• Added XTQALLOWED OSC 60 and OSC 61 (xterm 373).

Unicode and Emoji data

• Extend emoji information by considering Unicode file emoji-test.txt.

Configuration

• Option WrapTab (#1182).
• New user-definable function toggle-opaque (#1168), replaces transparency-opaque.

Other

• Fixed crash in Options dialog when Printer Service is stopped (#1185).

Unicode and Emoji data

• Unicode 15.0 update.

Terminal features

• Status line area support (VT320, xterm 371), DECSSDT, DECSASD.
• Extended multi-line host-writable status area, DECSSDT 2 N.
• Combined sub/superscript attributes render small script (#1171).
• Adjusted subscript position (~#1171).
• Alternative DEC private SGRs for sub/superscript (#1171).
• Revamp line cursor handling, size changeable by CSI ? N c (#1157, #1175).
• Support DECSET 117 (DECECM, VT520).
• Added DECARR to DECRQSS.
• Prevent font zooming for resizing controls like CSI 8.
• Optionally visualize margins by dimming.

Keyboard handling

• Not suppressing user-defined KeyFunctions for keypad keys in keypad modes (#1161).
• Alt+keypad-minus initiates decimal numeric input in case an Alt+numpad-digit key is assigned a user-defined function.

Mouse handling

• Configurable modifiers for hovering and link opening (#1169).
• Support super and hyper modifiers with mouse functions.
• Fixed mouse pixel coordinates limits (DECSET 1016).

Initialisation

• Grab focus again after showing the window, reducing focus delay for Windows 11 (#1113).

Configuration

• Option OldKeyFunctionsKeypad (~#1161, not listed in manual).
• Option OpeningMod (#1169).
• New user-definable function reset-noask.
• Option DimMargins, user-definable function toggle-dim-margins.
• Option StatusLine, user-definable function toggle-status-line.
• Background image mode '+' for combined scaling and tiling (#1180).
• New user-definable function transparency-opaque (#1168).

Other

• Fixed crash condition on user-defined commands (#1174).
• Add confirm dialog to Reset triggered by menu or Alt+F8 (#1173).

Window handling

• Terminal reflow (#82, #219): fixed crash condition on irregular reflow chunks.
• Terminal reflow (#82, #219): fixed memory leak.

Terminal features

• Visual input feedback: don't obscure text when just pressing Alt.
• Separate foreground and background values for ANSI colours (#1151).
• OSC 7704 for setting ANSI colours distinct from palette colours (#1151).

Keyboard handling

• Support longer multi-char keyboard input (a.k.a. "ligatures" in Windows) (#1155).

Configuration (contributed by Andy Koppe)

• ANSI colour specification accepts foreground ; background values (#1151).
• Tuned themes helmholtz (default) and kohlrausch for legibility (#1156).

Highlights

• Optional feature: Reflow terminal lines when resizing terminal width.
• Visual feedback of numeric or composed character input.
• New themes helmholtz and luminous (contributed by Andy Koppe).
• Setting helmholtz theme as default colour scheme.

Window handling

• Reflow terminal lines when resizing terminal width (#82, #219, mintty/wsltty#154).

Terminal features

• Tweak pending auto-wrap state affected when switching wrap modes.
• Fixed unscroll (CSI +T) in case width has changed meanwhile.
• Visual feedback of numeric or composed character input.

Keyboard handling

• Support user-defined mappings for Super-/Hyper-modified character keys.
• Support optional user-defined mappings for Control-/Alt-modified character keys (#399, #252, #523, #602, #645, ~#524, ~#817, ~#451).
• Suspend shortcut handling during numeric character input.
• Revise and fix numeric character input.
• Distinct Unicode vs. hexadecimal numeric character input.
• Menu key opens menu inside terminal, also stops numeric input.
• Fixed Compose sequences with more than 2 characters (broken since 3.1.5).

Font rendering

• Right-to-left font fallback (#1148).
• Fixed auto-widening of ambiguous-width letters (broken since 3.4.4).
• Speedup rendering of replacement indication of invalid character codes (#1145).
• Extend cell zoom to some Geometric Shapes U+25E2.., Dingbats U+1F67C.., and Symbols U+1FB00..U+1FBB3.

Startup

• Trimming irrelevant and possibly confusing environment variables before child invocation (xterm).

Configuration

• New themes helmholtz and luminous (contributed by Andy Koppe).
• Setting helmholtz theme as default colour scheme.
• New option -Rt to report the tty name of the child process / shell.
• New option ShootFoot (#399, #252, #523, #602, #645, ~#524, ~#817, ~#451).
• New option RewrapOnResize (#82), interactive (Options dialog).
• New user-definable function unicode-char.
• Updated X11-derived data: compose sequences and colour names.

Terminal features

• Fixed combining characters colour rendering (~#710).

Desktop integration

• WSL path conversion considers extended /etc/fstab entries (#1130).
• WSL path conversion supports UNC paths (#1130).
• Clipboard: strip terminating NUL (#1132).

Window handling

• New key shortcut Shift+Shift+Alt+F2 (both Shift keys) to enforce new window outside tabbar.
• Distinct system menu items "New Window" and "New Tab" if tabbar enabled (mintty/wsltty#295).
• Limiting size of scrollback buffer to secure buffer and clipboard handling (#1134).
• Avoid position gap after Options Apply (~#1126) in more cases, especially scrollbar toggling.
• Always fix window position back to screen when widening beyond screen.
• Save as Image (from Ctrl+right-click) with Shift also opens the image (#1139).
• Horizontal scrolling feature (#138).

Font rendering

• Tweak again handling of negative font leading (#948, #946).

Hotkey functions and user-definable functions

• Deprecated default key assignments Control+Shift+N / +T / +P.
• New user-definable functions new-tab and new-tab-cwd.

Configuration

• New option NewTabs (mintty/wsltty#295).
• New command-line option --newtabs.
• New option MaxScrollbackLines.
• Option OldModifyKeys to tune modified special keys.
• New command-line option --horbar.
• New user-definable functions for horizontal scrolling.

Unicode and Emoji data

• Unicode 14.0 update.

Terminal features

• Fix (revert back) DECSDM (DECSET 80) Sixel Display mode (#1127, xterm 369).
• Sound file playing OSC 440 (#1122).
• DECPS tone playing support (#1122).
• Fixed LED state glitch when ScrollLock is held in auto-repeat.
• Extended scope of area attributes change functions DECCARA and DECRARA.
• Unscroll sequence CSI +T, filling lines from scrollback buffer (kitty).
• Changed default BracketedPasteByLine=0 for consistent appearance.

Window handling

• Fixed -s max... options (#1124).
• Tweaked handling of positioning and size options.
• Always support negative position offset (#1123).
• Avoid position gap after Options Apply (#1126).
• Copy text: set proper clipboard timestamp.

Terminal features

• Visual double-width of symbols and emojis with subsequent space (#1104, #892, #1065, #979).
• Limit line cursor width by width of lines (underline etc) (#1101).
• Alternative escape sequence DECSET 2026 for synchronous screen update (#1098).
• Optimise screen display speed on bell sound series (#1102, ~#865).
• Italic emojis.
• Notify child process via iotcl also when scaling window with font size (xterm 368).
• Bracketed paste mode: configurable splitting by line.
• New user-definable functions no-scroll, toggle-no-scroll, scroll-mode, toggle-scroll-mode.
• Management of the ScrollLock LED for consistence with actual status of special scroll features.

Rendering

• Speedup of width detection for auto-narrowing for certain characters (#1065, #979, #892).
• Prevent artefacts of large-size underscore cursor (CSI 4 SP q CSI ? 6 c).
• Prevent spacing anomaly after U+FD3E and U+FD3F.
• Fix emojis selection highlighting (#1116), reverting 3.0.1 tweak for emojis in bidi lines.

Window handling

• Ensure -w full to cover taskbar also with -B void (~#1114).
• Tab management: Keep tabbar consistent (~#944, #699).

Initialisation

• Font initialisation speedup (~#1113).
• Avoid duplicate font initialisation (~#1113).
• Earlier window display by later setup of drag-and-drop and tabbar (~#1113).
• Grab focus before showing the window, reducing focus delay (#1113).

Configuration

• New option BracketedPasteByLine.
• Transparency button slider (#728, #140).
• New user-definable function new-window-cwd to clone window in current directory (~#1106).
• New user-definable functions no-scroll, toggle-no-scroll, scroll-mode, toggle-scroll-mode.

Terminal features

• Revised and fixed handling of blink attribute (~#1097).
• Coloured blink substitution display (xterm), escape sequences OSC 5/6;2.
• Support distinct blink attribute for base and combining characters.
• Apply blink attribute to graphics.
• Escape sequence OSC 22 to set mouse pointer shape (xterm 367).
• Escape sequences DCS=1/2s for atomic/synchronous screen update (~#1098).
• Support progress detection (for implicit progress bar) also if iconized.
• Implicit (detected) progress bar uses configured colour.
• Escape sequences to reset progress bar colour mode to configured value.
• Escape sequence to change progress value only.

Desktop integration

• New user-definable function win-toggle-keep-screen-on to disable screen saver.

Configuration

• New option BlinkColour.
• New options MousePointer, AppMousePointer.
• Restored "Allow blinking" in Options dialog (#1097).
• WSL-specific detection of Term info availabilities (mintty/wsltty#278).
• Export TERM to WSL (mintty/wsltty#278).

Terminal features

• Fixed blinking for drawn/overstrike characters, (under)lining and emojis.
• Bracketed Paste Mode: ensure embedding of each line.
• Fixed character set GR mappings to be unguarded by NRCS (vttest 3.10).
• Restore attributes after DECALN test pattern (vttest 11.6.4/5).
• Simplified support of ISO Guarded Area as protected (xterm-like global distinction).
• Fixed validity for REP repeat preceding graphic char (vttest 11[.6].7.2).
• Keyboard status report (DEC DSR 26), reporting window focus (vttest 11.1.1.1.1).

Vector graphics (Tektronix 4014 mode)

• Support "written first vector", triggered by GS-BEL (vttest 11.8.6.5, ~#896).
• Initial written vector joins previous text output (xterm).
• Adjustment of border coordinates to compensate for coordinate rounding.
• Fixed GIN mode and ENQ coordinates.
• Tweaked ENQ status byte.
• Distinct GIN mode mouse input (xterm).
• Smooth GIN mode crosshair cursor movement.
• Various mode handling fixes after GIN mode.
• GIN mode terminator strap options (Tek, xterm).
• Enhanced "defocused" indication by boldened colour.
• Enhanced "defocused" point plot indication by boldened point size.

Window handling

• Lines cleared from top of screen are scrolled into scrollback buffer (mintty/wsltty#272).
• New user-definable function win-toggle-always-on-top (#1095).
• New heuristics to adjust row spacing to font metrics (mintty/wsltty#257).

Configuration

• Run shell in login mode if terminal started from Windows shortcut.
• New option LoginFromShortcut.
• New option AutoLeading (mintty/wsltty#257).
• New option EraseToScrollback.
• New option TekStrap.

Configuration

• Support style Emojis=zoom.
• OSC 7750 for dynamic change of emojis style.

Terminal features

• Fixed width handling when selecting a non-text font (~#777).
• Auto-narrowing: glyph double-width detection for double-letter characters (like Dz, #777).
• Support fractional percentage for progress detection (#1074).
• Tweaked availability of DEC Cyrillic character set (VT520, xterm 363).

Keyboard handling

• Changed Ctrl+Backarrow to send Backspace (#1082, #449, xterm).
• Applying modifyOtherKeys mode 2 more consistently to special keys (~~#1082).

Configuration

• Tool mintheme works from WSL and in screen (mintty/wsltty#268).
• Support home or environment variable prefix for setting SaveFilename (~#1086).
• New settings -P/--pcon/ConPTY to enable/disable ConPTY support (mintty/wsltty#271).
• Support for theme file conversion on filename drag-and-drop (#1079).
• Support for theme file conversion on "file:" URL drag-and-drop (~#1079).
• Support for ".json" theme file conversion (~~#1079).

Unicode and Emoji data

• Update to Emoji data version 13.1.

Terminal features

• Terminal reset clears progress bar (mintty/wsltty#202).
• DECTST colour fillings (CSI 4;10..13 y, VT240).
• Smart detection of progress indication also inmidst line (mintty/wsltty#202).
• Fixed rendering of 0x7F (DEL code) in some 96-characters NRCS modes.
• Support for 48-bit hex colour specs (#1072).

Font rendering

• Enabled width detection for auto-narrowing non-BMP characters (#1065).
• Tweaked character ranges to consider for auto-narrowing (#1065).
• Enabled secondary font specification for Unicode blocks (#777).

Keyboard handling

• Compose key may also be user-defined super or hyper (#777).

Window handling

• Optionally transform Exit to characters, to exit on application-level (#1063).
• Options dialog: configurable font and size (~#1059).
• Tweak initial setup of terminal pixel size (#1071).

Configuration

• New option ExitCommands (#1063).
• New options OptionsFont and OptionsFontHeight (~#1059).
• Extended syntax for option FontChoice (#777).
• New ComposeKey values super, hyper (#777).

Character encoding

• Fixed locale setup interworking with bash startup profile (~#1050).
• Handling empty startup locale to be consistent with system-derived shell locale (~#1050).