Changes (same as pre-release 2.2.4, plus 3 fixes)
Highlights:
- Font setup and configuration improvements.
- Colour schemes / Theme files.
- GUI configuration of wav file for terminal beep.
- Startup error handling improvements.
Font configuration:
- Mintty adjusts row spacing according to the font metrics, to compensate for tight or tall spacing of some fonts (e.g. Consolas, FreeMono, Monaco). (The RowSpacing value is added to that.)
- Adjusting font weight selection to available font weights (#520).
- New option FontWeight supports more specific font weight selection (#520).
- Font selection menu has its own Apply button.
- Fonts with name problems (long names, #507) can be selected with the Apply button.
- Warnings for font not found or not supporting ANSI character set.
- Excluding fonts with OEM or SYMBOL charset from font selection menu.
- Excluding vertical fonts from font selection menu.
- New option ShowHiddenFonts to offer monospace fonts marked to Hide in the menu.
- Unicode-enabled Font setting (so e.g. mintty -o Font=Sütterlin works).
Themes, Configuration, and Options menu:
- Colour schemes: New option ThemeFile, configuration also in Options menu (~#193).
- Configuration of .wav bell sounds (option BellFile, #369) in Options menu.
- Resource directory $HOME/.mintty for theme and bell files.
- Fixed -o settings to also be saved when changed in Options menu.
Keyboard and mouse features:
- Workaround for occasional Alt state inconsistencies after window focus changes (#519).
- Compose key on wiki pages: replace AllChars with WinCompose.
- Opening marked "www." addresses also without "http:" prefix (#345).
Start and error handling:
- Fixed -C/--loadconfig to not overwrite common options in main config file.
- Fixed format substitution for log file in case of excess % conversions.
- Report full pathname of log file if creation fails.
- Improved and fixed format of child creation error messages.
- Improved reporting failed icon loading with non-ANSI icon filenames.