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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Git-bash on Windows is missing mintty [duplicate]
I have installed and use git-bash for windows, but when I check Options -> Terminal -> Type - I don't have mintty option.
Tried reinstalling git-bash - no luck.
Tried to install msys2, and it ...
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minttty open bash and run command
My goal is to launch several "bashes" configuring their position on the screen which I achieve. Now I want each of them to run a different script like 'dotnet run' or 'npm run start'. but I'...
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Cygwin ctrl-number not working (in cli emacs)
Cygwin ctrl-number is not working in cli emacs. I disabled the mintty options for keyboard shortcuts, so now ^- does work the same as ^u -1. Still, ctrl-number shortcuts do not work in emacs. ^4 ^x o ...
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Cygwin / mintty window size and GNU bash readline do not get along?
I have a problem with the Cygwin / mintty window size and the standard GNU bash readline shell. When I have 80 columns or less it works normally. But when I make the window wider then the bash (...
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cygwin / mintty color scheme woes
I heavily rely on Cygwin (that uses mintty) and SSH to work on remote systems on command lines and then using emacs in text mode as editor. I find the default color schemes of the cygwin shell ...
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Why isn't Esc working in vim in tmux in Mintty?
I sometimes use Mintty from Windows to ssh to a server, where I use vim (neovim) inside tmux. I have used this setup for years without issue. However, recently I have had the odd issue that pushing ...
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Cygwin's MinTTY behaving strangely with case sensitive names
Cyginw's MinTTY sorts files incorrectly on:
ls -al
Example:
S@DESKTOP-SCRPN /cygdrive/c/Users/S/Downloads
$ ls -al
total 153
drwx------+ 1 S None 0 Feb 5 17:11 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 SYSTEM ...
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In Mintty(terminal people favour for cygwin), can you get ENTER to not send a carriage return when text is highlighted?
In Mintty(terminal people favour for cygwin), can you get ENTER to not send a carriage return when text is highlighted?
For example, in cmd, if you go to properties..options..quickedit mode, then you ...
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Mintty terminal emulator: how to use “Image screenshot export”?
I'm programming in Bash (Git BASH) on Windows Server 2012R2.
From within my bash scripts, I would like to make a Screenshot of the mintty window, I'm running in.
According to https://mintty.github.io/ ...
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While gvim is running, mintty displays Unicode UTF-8 characters as question marks
When I fire up gvim in the background in a Cygwin mintty terminal, Unicode UTF-8 characters start getting displayed as question marks. When I quit gvim, mintty reverts to the correct behaviour. In ...
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How to turn on zle?
Having read the zshzle man page, I wanted to try out the zle_highlight parameter, and typed in my interactive zsh
zle_highlight=(blue bold)
with no visible effect. Digging further, I found that the ...
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Shift-arrow keys send ABCD in Git Bash on Windows 10
My git bash isn't working. It's probably some setting I tampered with and I don't remember what it is. I don't know why Shift-left and Shift-right arrow don't select text but send D and C characters. ...
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mintty support for sixel graphics?
I have mintty 3.06 installed, running Ubuntu 18.04 with WSL1.
This should support sixel graphics as far as I know, but no graphics have worked.
I try:
img2sixel png|jpeg
w3m -o ext_image_viewer=0 ...
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Copy tmux selection to windows clipboard in cygwin/minTTY
I use tmux in my cygwin-minTTY in windows, with mouse-support.
When I select a text in the terminal, it gets copied to the tmux buffer. But I want to have it in the Windows clipboard!
I can run ...
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Squashed unicode heavy check mark in Consolas Mintty
I use git bash prompt which uses the heavy check mark (U+2714), however using the Consolas font in Mintty the symbol appears squashed. The regular check mark (U+2713) appears normally.
I've tried ...
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When I press up-arrow in 'less' in mintty (cygwin), only the top line changes. How do I fix this?
Here is what is happening:
How do I fix this?
(Just to be clear, the issue occurs when I type less <any filename>. The man less in the gif is just an arbitrary command to demonstrate the ...
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Regex match failing in GNU grep on Windows Server
Here's the head of my file:
id,date,section,identifier,action,level,user_id,week,month,seconds_since_start
9464384,334600,12,,complete,4,1124822691805,1,1,1
9464413,334626,12,,complete,4,...
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Using nano in Cygwin's Mintty: Shortcuts don't work when editing git commit message
I'm using Cygwin with Mintty and have set the git editor to nano: git config --global core.editor "nano".
Now when I just run nano, the UI is black and white and the shortcuts, like ctrl+o and ctrl-x ...
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How to install locale for Cygwin?
I've installed Cygwin on window10. The language installed on window in French Canadian.
When I right-click on title bar of Cygwin window and choose Options..., I got this below.
On Window7, cygwin ...
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Issue Embedding Git Bash in RoyalTS
I'm trying to embed Git Bash into Royal TS v5 and I'm having some issues getting it working.
The way that I have it set up at the moment is as an embedded external application within Royal TS. I ...
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Cygwin - mintty.exe is stuck when I try to quit
I'm running Windows 10 with Cygwin.
When opening Cygwin from the start menu (Pointing to C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - and then entering "exit", the process gets unresponsive ...
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What are the .tmux.conf bindings for Ctrl-Shift keyboard shortcuts with Cygwin/Mintty?
My question is pretty much exactly as the post below, but the answers to the below post do not specify the lines added to .tmux.conf. Specifically I would like to know how to bind ctrl-shift-A to "...
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Control character 0x96 sneaks in when copying from or pasting to Git Bash terminal window
I'm on Windows 10 and I'm using Git Bash.
When I copy from or paste into this window, sometimes are stray character `` (decimal 150, hex 0x96) appears in the beginning of the string.
This character ...
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cygwin "Bash Prompt Here" not working with umlauts
Using the windows explorer context menu entry "Bash prompt here" that is installed with the cygwin package chere does not work, when the path contains a German umlaut in any position. E.g.: using it ...
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How to enable colors with Win32-OpenSSH and Putty?
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There seems to be a bug in Win32-OpenSSH that prevents colors to be shown in certain terminal emulators such as PuTTY and mintty.
Win32-OpenSSH seems to replace the color escape sequence "\...
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How do I use Hamilton C Shell with mintty?
I'm trying out the Hamilton C Shell but I haven't been able to make it run interactively with mintty.
I've tried running it from Cygwin:
$ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Hamilton\ C\ shell\ 2012\ x64\ ...
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mintty: how to keep my output visible after processes terminate?
I have a desktop shortcut that starts a cygwin bash script and I want the mintty terminal to stay open after my script terminates so that I can look at it's output. For this purpose I'm using the -h ...
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How to detect whether use `.inputrc` or not
I need add
"\e[1;5C": forward-word # ctrl + right
"\e[1;5D": backward-word # ctrl + left
in ~/.inputrc to make tmux works in msys2.
But this would corrupt git-bash, how do I make only msys2 ...
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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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Periodic input to Windows gitbash terminal
My bash terminal is receiving a space (chr 32) immediately followed by a backspace (chr 8) every 5 seconds (almost exactly). The effects aren't noticeable when typing, as the added space is deleted ...
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How can I change my MinGW/MSYS + mintty home directory?
I use mintty as my console emulator for MinGW/MSYS. Recently (I'm not certain exactly when), the home directory used by this combination changed from my Windows user folder (/c/Users/<me>/) to /...
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tmux fails to start in babun
I am trying to get tmux to work in babun. This basically means I am running zsh, oh-my-zsh, mintty and cygwin on Windows (64-bit Windows 7). Babun comes with a package manager, pact, that I used to ...
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Windows10: ubuntu bash shell + mintty: tmux copy selection
I'm using tmux under WSL Ubuntu bash shell in Windows 10 with mintty terminal (https://github.com/mintty/wsltty).
In tmux:
Ctrl+B, then Ctrl + Space I can make a selection (shown on screenshot). But ...
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How to config minttyrc for zoom
How to do this automatically?
I have to press Ctrl++ multiple times every time I open mintty to zoom the screen.
Thanks and welcome.
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Run C program in mintty from the windows command line
I want to run a C program in mintty and divert the stderr output stream to a file, debug.txt. This may be accomplished using:
./zombie_jump 2>debug.txt
However, I am having issues lauching this ...
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Change mintty title according active tmux window (cygwin)
How can I change mintty terminal title to show title of active tmux window?
For example:
I would like in this case title to be active tmux window - ncmpcpp or even better if possible title provided ...
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mintty on Cygwin: how to change line spacing
I have cygwin installed on windows 7. Previously, there was no space between lines. I was able to fit ~90 lines on my screen. For some reason, now there is a small (looks like 2 pt) space between ...
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How to make MinTTY close gracefully on Ctrl-C?
I would like some servers, like MongDB, to run inside terminal under Windows.
I use the following command to run them:
start <PATHTOMONGO>\mongod.exe --dbpath <PATHTODATA>
Standard ...
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How to make conemu windows key hotkeys work for mintty admin child windows?
I am using ConEmu on Windows 10v1511 and when I open a new mintty console with -new_console:a (as explained here) then certain hotkeys (win+q, win+1-9) stop behaving as normal - it appears to be ...
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Editor for 'git bash' on Windows (editor for mingw/msys+mintty)?
I am using 'git bash' for Windows (from 'git for Windows') which in turn consists of mingw+msys and a mintty.
This mingw installation contains a 'vi' editor which works in the mintty. Good.
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How can I use mintty as the terminal emulator for MinGW/MSYS?
The default "terminal emulator" in Windows leaves a lot to be desired. I see mintty recommended as a lightweight alternative with specific support for MinGW/MSYS, but not much information on how to ...
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Changed cygwin home location, now the terminal can't find my .minttyrc config file
I had to change the HOME location for Cygwin by setting it to pick up the directory I set in /etc/passwd (following the solution from here). It seems to not be a problem for the majority of my ...
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How to setup background image on Cygwin?
I am looking for a way to setup a background image on Cygwin. In the options of Cygwin shell Mintty there is no settings available to setup background image.
Is there any other way to setup ...
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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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ConEmu and ASCII characters
I've been using ConEmu for quite a while, and I'm having some problems with ASCII characters in it. This doesn't happen with other terminal emulators, such as urxvt or mintty, here's a shot with the ...
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mintty problems with Windows 8.1 on-screen keyboard (tablet) and Alt-Gr keys
On a tablet running Windows 8.1 I installed Cygwin 2.0.0 64.
Unfortunately I have issues using the on-screen (virtual) keyboard with Alt-Gr keys from within mintty.
Example: In Germany to get to the ...
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Shortcut to run mintty.exe with ConEmu
I'm trying to create a shortcut to start Cygwin's mintty.exe (logged in with default config) in ConEmu.
The only way I was able to start mintty inside ConEmu via shortcut was by defining the shortcut'...
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Cygwin's MinTTY takes about a minute to start up
When I open MinTTY from outside an existing MinTTY, the new terminal window takes about a minute to show up. My Windows shortcut is set to run C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -. The ...
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use `bower init` within MinTTY
I'm trying to use bower init from a MinTTY shell on Windows 8.1 x64 but I get this error:
sh-3.1$ bower init
bower ENOINT Register requires an interactive shell
How can I use this command ...
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