github mintty/mintty 2.3.2

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8 years ago

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.

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