mintty/mintty 2.8.4

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Character handling and rendering

• Emoji support (mintty/wsltty#82, #600, ~#671, ~#430).
• Fixed double-width handling within right-to-left text.

Window handling

• Ctrl+Alt+mouse-click/drag moves the window (#729).
• Apply Virtual Tab position catching also on Alt+F2 (#699).
• Workaround for Windows failing to consider the taskbar properly when maximizing with no or frame-only border (#732).
• Workaround for caption-less window exceeding borders (#733) on Windows 10.

Mouse handling

• More selective suppression of mouse action on focus-click (mintty/wsltty#88, #717).
• Fixed mouse function in search bar (#85), broken since 2.8.2 (#717).

Desktop integration

• Support for taskbar "Tasks" list ("jump list") (#290).
• Session launcher icons (#699).

Configuration

• Options Emojis, EmojiPlacement to configure emojis style and display
• Option TaskCommands to configure a taskbar icon task list ("jump list").
• Limit tweaking of empty shortcut start dir to Start menu case (#737).