wsltty

• Updated to mintty 3.4.1

• Tabbar (#245).

• Fixed themes list and interactive theme switching feedback (#251).

• Fixed occasional artefacts of line cursor (#255).

• Tweak for avoiding extra shell in WSL V2 (#197).

• Revise locale and character encoding handling and setup (#259).

Updated to mintty 3.3.0.

Highlights

• Screen dump as image (.png format), configurable file name and location.
• Tektronix 4014 vector graphics mode.

Wsltty

• Prevent mouse wheel double interpretation, also fixing speed issues (#238).
• Tweak click-opening WSL files (#115).

Updated to mintty 3.2.0 with fixes in image rendering (e.g. Sixel output).

• Updated to mintty 3.1.8.
• Patched wslbridge2 (using forked repository), to fix window size issues (#220).

• Fix fallback icon in generated shortcuts
• Fixes for imported distros (#226)
• Fix installer: invoke configuration (#232), shortcuts generation (#237, #162), usernames with spaces (#230) and other chars (#213)

Updated to mintty 3.1.4.
Updated to cygwin 3.1.5 (with ConPTY support).

• Fixed install/uninstall if %APPDATA% is on a different drive (#223).
• Remove all previous shortcuts on uninstall of reconfigure (#218).
• Handle user names with special characters like "&" (#213).
• Fixed some cases of icon access.
• Fixed WSL invocation from cygwin32 and build handling for cygwin32/64.

Updated binary installer to cygwin 3.1.0, with ConPTY support.

• Updated to mintty 3.1.0

• Updated to wslbridge2 v0.5

• Invoking WSL in login mode (#196, #191, #70, #56, #37)

• Tentatively support 32-bit build for Windows on ARM (untested)

• Various build tweaks

Updated to mintty 3.0.6 (minor changes).

Updated to wslbridge2 v0.4.

Should work for WSL V2 now.

Updated to mintty 3.0.5.

• Fixed and polished installation.
• Uninstallation shall remove desktop shortcut (#184).
• Installation considers custom $installdir (#180), using mkshortcut.exe.

• Consider custom installation directory (#180).
• Change mkshortcut deployment, dropping mkshortcut.vbs, under the assumption that this may cause false virus alerts (#181, #182).

[installer updated]

• backend patch v3, linking properly (#169), with dlopen for getpwuid (#156)
• find proper icon and rootfs for wsldl-built distros (#169)
• deploy uninstall.bat in installation directory (#170, ~#175, ~#15)

Updated to mintty 3.0.2

• Ensure cmd.exe is available in PATH during installation/configuration (#172).
• Use exe-embedded WSL distribution icons (#111, ~#132).

Reverted static linking patch to solve #169,
unfortunately spoiling #156 again.

Upgraded to mintty 3.0.1; highlights:

• New character attributes superscript, subscript, shadowed, overstrike.
• DEC VT420 screen control features.
• Fully VT100-compatible, including VT52 mode (with graphics).
• Up to 6 key modifiers, including Meta (Win key) and configurable Super and Hyper keys.
• Bell sounds in package.
• Various window and clipboard handling optimisations and extensions.
• User-definable function extensions.

Wsltty changes:

• Determine Desktop folder from registry (#166).
• Avoid %USERPROFILE% (#166).
• Improve description to configure shortcuts and context menu entries (#166).
• Static linking of wslbridge-backend to make it work in all distros (#156).
• Make wslbridge-backend executable for all distros (#163).

Updated to mintty 3.0.0.

Updated to mintty 2.9.8.

[Installer withdrawn. Wait for 2.9.9 please.]

Updated to mintty 2.9.7; highlights:

• Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.
• Text can be selected with the keyboard.
• Explicit hyperlink attributes.
• Avoid keyboard/echo latency.

Specific to wsltty:

• Allow WSL commands as parameters to .bat invocation scripts (#147).

• Updated to mintty 2.9.6.

• Supporting icon customization, deploying alternative mintty icon (#132).

• Enabling default WSL context menu entry by avoiding Windows collision (#141).

• Cloning AppID from desktop shortcut (#96).

• Support for pasting from Windows clipboard history (#139).

• Option to lock title from being changed (#138).

• Updated to mintty 2.9.5.
  • Fixed startup directory after cloning new window after starting from desktop shortcut (#96).
  • Changed default handling of resolution change to HandleDPI=2.
  • Flexible Copy as HTML formatting levels, configurable in Options dialog.