• Configuring mintty
  • Desktop integration
  • Using desktop shortcuts to start mintty
  • Smart login mode
  • Hotkey / Windows Shortcut key
  • Hotkey / "quake mode"
  • Taskbar icons
  • Taskbar icon grouping
  • Taskbar launch commands
  • Tab sessions
  • Taskbar pinning
  • Taskbar bell indication
  • Taskbar progress indication
  • Window session grouping
  • Window icons
  • Start errors
  • Error: could not fork child process
  • Supporting Linux/Posix subsystems
  • WSLtty, the standalone WSL mintty terminal
  • Manual setup of WSL terminal
  • Interix
  • Starting mintty from a batch file
  • Starting in a particular directory
  • Creating a folder context menu entry for mintty
  • Setting environment variables
  • Input/Output interaction with alien programs
  • Text attribute handling from WSL and other Windows programs
  • Signal processing with alien programs
  • Terminal type detection – check if running inside mintty
  • Terminal line settings
  • Readline configuration
  • Paste protection
  • Ignore bracketed paste mode
  • Enhance paste control
  • Unexpected behaviour with certain applications (e.g. vim)
  • Control+H in emacs
  • Shift+up/down for text selection in emacs
  • Mode-dependent cursor in vim
  • Enabling full mouse functionality in vim
  • Blinking cursor reset
  • Avoiding escape timeout issues in vim
  • Keyboard issues in specific environments
  • Detecting AltGr in TeamViewer
  • Handling the clipboard in Hot Keyboard
  • Using Ctrl+Tab to switch window pane in terminal multiplexers
  • Switch window in GNU Screen
  • Switch pane in tmux
  • Keyboard customization
  • Backarrow key configuration
  • Windows-style copy/paste key assignments
  • Compose key
  • Appearance
  • Changing colours
  • Using colour schemes (“Themes”)
  • Background image
  • Providing and selecting fonts
  • Alternative fonts
  • Secondary fonts
  • Dynamic fonts
  • Character width
  • Ambiguous width setting
  • Remote locale width mismatch
  • Selective double character width
  • Wide symbol overhang
  • Font rendering and geometry
  • Window geometry, rows and columns
  • Text attributes and rendering
  • Emojis
  • Installing emoji resources
  • Quick Guide to emoji installation
  • Searching in the text and scrollback buffer
  • Character encoding
  • Unicode support
  • GB18030 support
  • Passing arguments from an environment with different character set
  • Spawning a new terminal window in the same directory
  • Virtual Tabs and Tabbar
  • Tabbar
  • Tab ordering
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Embedding graphics in terminal output
  • Image support
  • Tektronix 4014 vector graphics
  • Localization
  • Adding translations to localization
  • Character information display
  • User-defined behaviour
  • Terminating the foreground program, the hard way
  • Terminating the foreground program, the smart way
  • Running mintty stand-alone
  • Bundling mintty with dedicated software