mintty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows. It features a native Windows user interface and does not require an X server. Its terminal emulation is aimed to be compatible with xterm.
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How does the mouse + ncurses work over ssh?
I'm running cygwin on Windows 8 x64 using the mintty interface. I ssh into my Solaris 11.0 server and ran mc (GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.6). To my surprise, when I accidentally clicked on a portion of ...
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Setting GNU Screen to send escape codes to outer terminal on TI
I’m using GNU Screen inside mintty. To get the scroll wheel to work, I had to switch the mintty scroll wheel mode with an escape code (^[[?7787h). This has the effect that the scroll wheel does not ...
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Having Trouble Sending Arguments To Mintty/Cygwin
Simply put, I would like to have a shortcut on Windows which can open up a terminal window just like clicking the Cygwin shortcut normally does, but in a different location from the default.
The ...
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Cygwin/MinTTY Failing to Update Terminal Output Properly
After a recent re-install of Cygwin I've been experiencing some odd behavior -- in that terminal output from a running application is not showing up when written, but will suddenly pop into existence ...
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Odd behavior on Shift-{Esc,Fx}
Sometimes, when changing between the modes in Vim, I forget to take my finger
off the Shift key. This innocent mistake is probably part of the luggage
carried over from other terminals, but I have ...
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Cygwin+Mintty password prompt problems
The latest version of Cygwin doesn't use the windows command prompt by default, but Mintty instead. Initially, I loved mintty because it is much more reponsive and pastes on middle click. However, ...
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Cygwin + zsh: Home and End keys not working
I cannot get Home and End keys to work for zsh under Cygwin. Various sources seem to suggest that
bindkey '\e[1~' beginning-of-line
bindkey '\e[4~' end-of-line
will fix the problem but this does ...
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Passing the an argument to Windows shortcut
I was successful in opening vim via shortcut in Windows.
It is simple as creating a target with
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/vim
Now when I open a file with this shortcut, it seems as though ...
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SSH rapid keypresses cause disconnect
I often work directly on a server in vim via ssh for small changes to sites, etc. However often if I input a lot of keypresses rapidly (such as holding down a page dn, scrolling my mouse wheel or ...
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ZSH with mintty on latest cygwin?
Does anyone know how to set mintty to use zsh on the newest cygwin install?
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Enable wheel in mintty (cygwin) for vim [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man
How to enable the mouse wheel inside vim?
I'm using mintty and cygwin.
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Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man
I'm using mintty and cygwin. How to can I enable the mouse wheel inside less and man?
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How to change the title of the mintty window?
MinTTY is the new default Console for Cygwin.
What's a shell command (something I can put in .bashrc, or even better, in .zshrc) to change the title of the MinTTY window ?
I'd like the title of the ...
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How do I mark batch files as executables in bash/cygwin?
In my quest to better my experience in my windows 7 environment, I have installed cygwin and have started using mintty as my command line interface tool. This has been nice and takes me back to my ...
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Using SQLite3 with Cygwin
I'm trying to use sqlite3.exe command shell with a mintty terminal in cygwin. I tried the program from a windows command prompt and it works. When I try to use it from the cygwin mintty terminal it ...
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how to start mintty xorg mode
I wonder how I can start mintty in Xorg-mode? (dunno if it called so) Anyway I'm using cygwin, and I execute XWin so I can run emacs in Xorg. However the default shell for XWin is xterm which I wish ...
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How do I change colors on-the-fly in mintty?
How do I change the colors in a Cygwin mintty session which is already open? Is it possible?
Use case:
Under environment-imposed time constraints, multiple terminal windows have been opened without ...
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No colors when running native windows shell application from mintty
I have installed cygwin (i'm not very experienced with it), and try to run a native windows shell application from it, (msbuild.exe which is the build tool for the .NET framework, to be exact).
When ...
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How to create a shortcut in the Windows 7 taskbar that starts mintty and cygwin?
I would like to have a starter in the Windows 7 taskbar that starts Cygwin, then starts mintty and then ideally navigates to /cygdrive/c/Users/myName/
I guess this should be possible using some ...
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Cygwin/Git Bizarre Terminal Issue
Alright, this is weird. First off, this is mintty running on up-to-date cygwin, with git pulled from cygwin's setup.exe. I am running zsh.
$ git clone ...
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cygwin + mintty + vim backspace problem
I have installed vim, mintty via cywin on XP.
The problem is when I try to hit backspace in VIM edit mode, the cursor move back a character instead of wiping the previous char. How can I tweak this ...
