wsltty

Updated to mintty 2.9.4.
Enhanced taskbar icon grouping behaviour (#96).

Updated to mintty 2.9.3

• Fixed scroll-up problem (#128).

[removed 1.9.2 installer due to a serious bug in terminal handling]

Update to mintty 2.9.2

• Ligatures display support while being input (#123).
• Option to scale window to aspect ratio of background image (#122).
• Support for Windows pathnames in background filenames (#122).
• Special option setting AppID=@ to derive taskbar grouping implicitly from WSL distro name (#96).

Build

• Removed hen-or-egg dependency on wslbridge-backend (#118).

Installation:

• Consider manually tuned installdir and configdir (#119).
• Quote PATH setting (#121).

Fixed wslbridge version to include recent improvements.

Updated to mintty 2.9.0.
Updated wslbridge with recent enhancements.

• Fixed initial bold as font suppression glitch (#103).
• Keeping WSL windows together in Windows task bar (#96).
• Enabled OSC 7 current directory injection for Ctrl+click in WSL (#104, #19).
• Supporting mintheme tool on WSL.
• Option --WSLmode to tune behaviour for WSL distro but not launch (#99).

• Update to mintty 2.8.5.

• Update to wslbridge wslpath patch.

• Support for WSL mount point configuration (/etc/wsl.conf or fstab) (#91).

• Attempt to avoid virus scanners choking on VBS script name (#94).

• Invocation as wsl*[-distro].exe implies a --WSL[=distro] parameter (#63).

• Reverted Sixel colour registers patch that could fail Sixel display or even stall terminal (#90).

• Character Info support (display of character and emoji names) (#82).

Updated to mintty 2.8.4:

• Emoji support (#82).
• Windows taskbar "jump list" support.
• Focus-click tweaks (#88).

Other:

• Enhanced shell selection and login mode instructions (#56, ~#83).
• Fixed wsltty version check (#85).

Repackaged with wslbridge 0.2.4 to fix start bug (#83).

Terminal

• Updated to mintty 2.8.3.

Window and session handling

• Removed option "-h err" from scripts, shortcuts, context menu (#79).
• Session switcher: guarded window restore with iconic check (#80).

Terminal

• Updated to mintty 2.8.2.

Launching

• Wslbridge updated from login-mode branch.
• Both wsltty and wslbridge request a login shell as appropriate (the Windows bash.exe launcher may no always comply, though).
• Shortcut icon has precedence over WSL distribution icon.

Window and session handling

• Prevent HOME from being propagated back to Windows applications (#76).
• Support Alt+F2 in same directory (after OSC 7).

Installation and configuration

• Bundling selected theme files with the package (mintty/mintty#711).
• Fixed context menu configuration (from Start Menu WSLtty folder) (#75).
• Try to succeed with installation while programs are still in use (?#72).

WSL tweaks

• Support legacy-only installations (#64).
• Further WSL adaptations to pathname conversion (#19).

Virtual Tab enhancements

Option for ambiguous-wide character width handling

Terminal updated to mintty 2.8.0 with 3 major enhancements:

• Virtual Tabs feature set, including a session switcher and launcher
• filled gaps in DEC terminal support up to VT300 series level (#55)
• simplified WSL integration (#52, #59, ~#60)

WSL-specific changes

• Preventing @cjknarrow locale modifier for WSL (mintty/mintty#686).
• Deploy shortcuts with preference to start in user's home directory (#3).
• Update availability check for wsltty build refers to wsltty version (#20).
• Fixed rootfs handling in pathname conversion (#19).
• DEC Locator mouse mode (facilitating pixel-based position), supporting interactive sixel graphics programs from WSL.
• Workaround for broken AltGr of Windows on-screen keyboard (mintty/mintty#692).

Localization meanwhile available for (in alphabetical order of locale ids):

• German, English (UK/US), Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese.

Support for new WSL distribution model (#52).

• Installing Start Menu icons, invocation scripts, and optionally context menu entries for all installed WSL distributions.
• Adapted package installation and Start Menu subfolder
• Increased major version number to reflect the package revision

Updated to mintty 2.7.9

Updated to wslbridge 0.2.3, with static compilation (#49).
Showing wsltty version number in About info (#50, #35).

Added option -h err to invocation to ensure display of launch error message (#43).

Updated to mintty 0.7.8.
Updated to wslbridge 0.2.2.

• Ensure reliable configuration location (#45).

• Added --configdir option to Explorer context menu entries.
• Checked that the installer does not cause trouble here as the previous one.

Installation

• Flexible configuration target (#30).
• Separate configuration directory (#30, #38, #40).

Updated mintty to 2.7.7

• Updated to mintty 2.7.6. See https://github.com/mintty/mintty/releases/tag/2.7.6 for changes.
• Installation creates /tmp directory for version checking (#20).
• Add hint about installation bothering with “Windows protected your PC” popup (#32).
• Change binary distribution to 64 bit (#33).