mintty

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mintty
Developer(s)Andy Koppe; Thomas Wolff
Initial release2008; 16 years ago (2008)
Stable release
3.6.5 / September 3, 2023; 7 months ago (2023-09-03)[1]
Windows
PlatformCygwin
TypeTerminal emulator
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitemintty.github.io

mintty is a

display server; its terminal emulation is aimed to be compatible with xterm.[2]

Mintty is based on the terminal emulation and Windows frontend parts of PuTTY, but improves on them in a number of ways,[3] particularly regarding xterm compatibility. It is written in C. The POSIX API provided by Cygwin is used to communicate with processes running within mintty, while its user interface is implemented using the Windows API. The program icon comes from KDE's Konsole.

Towards the end of 2011, mintty became Cygwin's default terminal.

MSYS[5] (a more minimal Unix environment forked
from Cygwin).

Originally, the project's name was styled "MinTTY", following the example of PuTTY, but it was later restyled to "mintty", which was felt to better suit the project's minimalist approach.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Release 3.6.5". GitHub.
  2. ^ "Project page". mintty.github.io. Archived from the original on 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Download mintty 1.0.1". Softpedia. mintty is a lightweight, portable application that was developed so that it can replace PuTTY
  4. ^ "1.0.2-1 announcement". cygwin.com.
  5. ^ "MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows - Browse /MSYS/mintty at SourceForger.net". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 12 January 2011.
  6. ^ "0.5-beta2 announcement".

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