category: Shells Base
build-depends: cygport gcc-core make
sdesc: "Terminal emulator with native Windows look and feel"
ldesc: "Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin.

Terminal display features
* Xterm-compatible terminal emulation, coverage of all DEC terminal series screen control features.
* 256 colours and True-Colour support, optional CMYK colour specification.
* Full character attributes support, including italic, underline styles and colours, overline, strikeout, rapid blinking.
* Extended character attributes support: shadowed, subscript, superscript (terminfo) and overstrike.
* DEC VT420 screen control features, including rectangular areas.
* Full Unicode support, comprehensive character encoding support and wide character handling.
* Bidirectional rendering, flexible bidi controls (bidi marks and control functions).
* Advanced Arabic shaping: LAM/ALEF (optional single-cell), ZWJ/ZWNJ shaping control.
* Alternative fonts: simultaneous display of multiple fonts.
* Secondary fonts: script-specific alternative font usage.
* Dynamic installation of temporary fonts.
* Reflow option on terminal resize (re-breaking of wrapped lines).
* Self-drawn box characters for smooth and consistent box drawing.
* Full emoji support, including all emoji sequences: emoji ZWJ sequences, dynamic support for flags emojis.
* “Emoji width” mode to always render emojis in 2-cell width.
* Image display support.
* Sixel graphics support.
* Tektronix 4014 vector graphics emulation.
* Audio support: sound files and DECPS tone playing.

Terminal input and interaction features

* Character composition with full Unicode support, using dead keys and Compose key.
* Visual feedback of numeric or composed character input.
* Up to 6 key modifiers, including Meta (Win key) and configurable Super and Hyper keys.
* Comprehensive AltGr support, handling all modifier combinations.
* Windows IME support.
* Keyboard workarounds for certain buggy virtual keyboard / remote desktop / hotkey software.
* Support for all relevant mouse modes, including pixel-grained SGR and DEC locator modes.
* Text selection with mouse or keyboard.
* Easy copy & paste.
* Drag & drop of text, files and folders.
* Elastic mouse text selection.
* Ability to open files and URLs with Ctrl+click, explicit hyperlinks.
* Fast rendering and scrolling, fast keyboard feedback.
* Screenshot dump: HTML export to file and clipboard, image export.

Window handling features and desktop integration
* Colour schemes / Theme file support; optional distinct theme for darkmode.
* Thoughtfully designed default colour schme (theme helmholtz, by Andy Koppe).
* Background texture and image support.
* Virtual Tabs / session switcher and launcher.
* Tabbar to switch virtual tabs (with interactive tab arrangement) for a tabbed window experience.
* Dynamic tab reordering with visual feedback.
* Taskbar tasks (“jump list”) configuration. Task grouping configuration.
* Flexible fullscreen, fullsize and border options.
* Horizontal scrolling.
* Screen and scrollback buffer search.
* Window transparency.
* Multiple monitor support, high DPI and DPI change support; enhanced multi-monitor DPI handling.
* Flexible multi-monitor window placement support.

Configuration features and system support
* Native Windows user interface with a lean options dialog.
* User interface language localization support.
* User-defined key shortcuts and menu functions.
* Flexible configuration and resource folder options.
* Options stored in a text file. No registry entries.
* Switchable terminal logging, switchable character information.
* Runs in Cygwin, MSYS(2), midipix. Also hosting WSL.
* Runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11."
skip:

homepage: http://mintty.github.io/
license: GPL-3.0-or-later