Mintty

About

MinTTY is a terminal. It's the default terminal of MSYS2.

It is a terminal emulator used by:

• Cygwin
• or Git Bash

Installation

• In Cygwin, it is installed as the default terminal by Cygwin's setup.exe.
• In MSYS, the mintty package can be installed with the command mingw-get install mintty.
• Git install

Alternatively, binaries for Cygwin 1.7, 1.5 and MSYS can be found on the downloads page.

Features

It supports:

• a resizable window,
• non-rectangular selections
• Unicode font.

Windows console programs (such as interactive Python) must be launched via winpty to work in MinTTY.

Others:

• Xterm-compatible terminal emulation.
• Native Windows user interface with a simple options dialog.
• Easy copy & paste.
• Drag & drop of text, files and folders.
• Ability to open files and URLs with Ctrl+click.
• Comprehensive character encoding support, including UTF-8.
• Wide character display and Windows IME support.
• Window transparency, including glass effect on Vista and 7.
• 256 colours.
• Fullscreen mode.
• Options stored in a text file. No registry entries.
• Small program size and quick scrolling.

Documentation / Reference

• https://code.google.com/archive/p/mintty/
• https://mintty.github.io/