Questions tagged [mintty]
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 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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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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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 do I use Ctrl-Shift keyboard shortcuts for Tmux, with Cygwin/Mintty?
I want to use "1-step" keyboard shortcuts for Tmux, when used from Cygwin/Mintty. I can't get them to work, so for now I have to use the default "2-step" keyboard shortcuts for Tmux, which I don't ...
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VIM showing "m" near white space on Cygwin
I recently upgraded all the packages on my Cygwin (x64) install and since then, my VIM shows "m" at the start of some lines and around whitespace. (My guess is that it might be in places where escape ...
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Cygwin Mintty unicode doesn't display fail despite having dejavu sans mono and everything
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the problem is ubuntu machine can't display \u03bb as greek lambda symbol
ubuntu is remote:
[ubuntu@ubuntu:~]$echo -e "\xce\xbb\x0a"
λ
[ubuntu@ubuntu:~]$echo -e "\u03bb"
\u03BB
this is ...
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