github mintty/mintty 2.9.0

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Highlights (details see below)

  • Background image and texture support.
  • Enhanced multi-monitor DPI handling.
  • Underline styles and colours, CMYK colour specifications.
  • Outer scrollbar mode, xterm-compatible.
  • Enhanced text selection mouse support.
  • Enhanced quick window switching.
  • Tweaked start error handling.
  • Tweaked WSL support.

Character attributes and rendering

  • Support for colon-separated SGR sub-parameters (ISO/IEC 8613-6) (xterm 282):
  • SGR escapes for ISO/IEC 8613-6 RGB, CMY, CMYK, and indexed colour formats.
  • DECRQSS uses SGR sub-parameters for colour specifications (xterm 331).
  • SGR 4:1...4:5 for underline styles solid, double, wavy, dotted, dashed.
  • SGR 58/59 for underline colour (kitty, iTerm2).
  • Fixed (almost) selection highlighting of emojis.
  • Drawing Unicode Block Elements which are broken in many fonts (#264).
  • Fixed initial bold as font suppression glitch (mintty/wsltty#103).

Window control

  • DECSET 30 to enable/disable outer scrollbar (like xterm) (#159, ~#262).
  • DECSET 1046 enables/disables alternate screen switching (xterm 331).
  • Cursor style modes DECSET 12 (AT&T 610) (xterm 331) and SM 33/34 (Wyse).

Scrollbar

  • Fixed scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O) from forcing scrollbar to the right.
  • Preventing font zooming after scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O).

Window layout

  • Background image or texture support (#18, #666).

Multi-monitor support

Text selection

  • Drag-and-drop selection after focus click enabled by combined cell and time distance (#717).
  • Only suppress focus-click selection if focus reporting disabled or mouse reporting not effective (#717).
  • Ctrl+mouse-move hovering underlines URLs and filenames (#173).
  • Selection highlighting can also indicate selection size (#660).

Window handling

  • Revised Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab window switching (#773).
  • Ctrl+Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab for window switching including iconized windows (#735).
  • Win+Shift move coupling of tab sets if SessionGeomSync ≥ 2 (#600, #699).

Configuration

  • CMY(K) colour specifications in OSC sequences and config file.
  • Option Background and OSC 11 to set background image or texture (#18, #666).
  • Option SelectionShowSize to enable selection size indication (#660).

Themes management

  • Fixed syntax error in mintheme tool (#764).
  • Option mintheme -d -q for decimal colour format (#718).
  • Supporting mintheme tool on WSL.
  • Options mintheme -p and mintheme -t to set background picture or texture.
  • Options mintheme -s and mintheme -S for theme visualization and comparison.

Other

  • Updated Emoji data and built-in width data to Unicode 11.0.
  • Enabled OSC 7 current directory injection for Ctrl+click in WSL (mintty/wsltty#104, mintty/wsltty#19).
  • Reporting start error (exit status 255) (#745).
  • Changed start error exit code from 255 to 126 (#745).
  • Fixed slowdown of Character Info mode if Unicode data are not deployed.
  • Option --WSLmode to tune behaviour for WSL distro but not launch (mintty/wsltty#99).
  • WSLtty appx mode triggered statically or dynamically (mintty/wsltty.appx#3).
  • Clarified additional configuration requirements for option TaskCommands in the manual.

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