github mintty/mintty 2.7.7

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7 years ago

Font rendering and display handling

  • Automatically disabling Uniscribe for ASCII-only chunks (mintty/wsltty#36).
  • Fixed bidi display while showing other screen with Bidi=1 (#592, ~#392, ~#605).

Window handling

  • Avoid being pushed behind other windows on Ctrl+TAB (#652).
  • Tweaks to stabilize initial window geometry (#629, #649).
  • Fixed broken size parameters maxwidth/maxheight.

Terminal handling

  • Option NoAltScreen disables the alternate screen (~#652).
  • Fixed delayed scroll marker highlighting (#569).
  • Manual: link to Wiki about console issues / winpty wrapper (#650).

Configuration

  • New option --configdir for config file and resource folders (mintty/winpty#30, mintty/winpty#40, mintty/winpty#38).
  • Always save to config file specified with -c/--config or --configdir (mintty/winpty#30, ~mintty/winpty#40).
  • Options: offer resources from subdirectories of all config directories (#639, #30, ~#38).
  • Configuration resource subdirectories are created as needed (#30, #38, ~#639).

Other

  • Fixed cleanup of environment variables after user command (#654).
  • Fixed usage of /tmp or (if read-only) alternatives (mintty/wsltty#30).
  • Wiki: removed link to buggy themes (#647).

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