mintty/mintty 2.9.1

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Highlights (details see below)

• User-defined key shortcuts.

• Catch-up with escape control sequences recently introduced by xterm.

• Tweaks and fixes for window manipulation and other escape sequences.

• Generic options to suppress various attributes and feature sets.

• HTML Screen Dump function.

• Optionally scale window to aspect ratio of background image.

• Mouse handling enhancements.

• Always allow switching scrollbar; do not switch on terminal reset (like xterm).

• Keyboard AltGr workaround for buggy TeamViewer.

Terminal features

• Avoid overwriting last column by clear-to-end-of-line/screen in pending auto-wrap state (#781).
• Fix maximize vertically/horizontally (preserve width/height) and restore properly.
• Fixed CSI 5/6/9/10 t default handling, preventing accidental window modification.
• Fixed CSI 13/19 t to report multi-monitor virtual screen size without padding (like xterm).
• New CSI 13;2/14;2/15/16 t (xterm 332/333).
• New CSI # {/} XTPUSHSGR and XTPOPSGR push/pop character attributes (xterm 334, extended).
• New CSI 0 i print screen.
• Keeping wrapped line selection copy together after window has been resized (~#82).
• Terminal soft reset resets cursor blinking (xterm 334).
• DECSET 66 for application keypad.
• Added DECSCPP and DECSLPP to DECRQSS (xterm 334).
• Generic option to suppress character attributes (#468, ~#478, #777, ~#459).
• Generic option to suppress DEC private mode switching.
• Generic options to suppress window operations and configuration commands.
• Optional filtering of pasted text (#768).

Keyboard handling

• User-defined key shortcuts and function keys (#705, #602, #645, #399, #252, ~#726, ~#524, ~#451, ~#523).
• Workaround for buggy TeamViewer (#783).
• Guarding Alt handling from AltGr detection (#790).
• VT220 keyboard toggle function for extended menu and user-defined keys.

Window handling

• When suppressing focus-in mouse click event, also suppress the mouse release event (#782, #717).
• After suppressing focus-in mouse click event, avoid subsequent false double-click report (#717).
• Elastic mouse text selection includes only characters dragged more than halfway (#308).
• Clearing hover highlighting as appropriate.
• Tweaked selection size hint positioning (#660).
• Optionally scale window to aspect ratio of background image (#18, #666).
• Always allow switching scrollbar; do not switch on terminal reset (like xterm).

Desktop / taskbar integration

• Partially withdrawn 2.9.0 patch to keep WSL windows together in Windows task bar (mintty/wsltty#96).
• AppID (to group taskbar icons) is derived from WSL distro only with setting AppID=@ (#784, ~mintty/wsltty#96).

Configuration

• New tool option mintheme --save to save theme in config file (#794).
• Option ElasticMouse=true to not select characters only slightly touched (#308).
• Option KeyFunctions for user-defined shortcuts and function keys (#705, #602, #645, #399, #252, ~#726, ~#524, ~#451, ~#523).
• Special option setting AppID=@ to derive taskbar grouping implicitly from WSL distro name (#784, ~mintty/wsltty#96).
• Support for Windows pathnames in background filenames (#18, #666).
• Option to scale window to aspect ratio of background image (#18, #666).
• New option value -RW to list installed WSL distributions and properties.
• Option CtrlAltDelayAltGr for relaxed AltGr detection (#783).
• Option SuppressSGR to suppress character attributes (#468, ~#478, #777, ~#459).
• Option SuppressDEC to suppress DEC private mode switching.
• Option SuppressWIN to suppress window operations.
• Option SuppressOSC to suppress window configuration commands (~#385).
• Option FilterPasteControls to filter pasted text (#768).

Other

• HTML Screen Dump function (extended context menu or escape sequence).
• Detect cygwin version for handling of @cjkwide locale modifier.
• For illegal encoding, use REPLACEMENT CHARACTER if available.
• Withdrawn Wyse cursor style modes SM 33/34 (#787).