I have uploaded mintty 2.9.0 with the following changes:
Highlights (details see below)
* Background image and texture support.
* Enhanced multi-monitor DPI handling.
* Underline styles and colours, CMYK colour specifications.
* Outer scrollbar mode, xterm-compatible.
* Enhanced text selection mouse support.
* Enhanced quick window switching.
* Tweaked start error handling.
* Tweaked WSL support.
Character attributes and rendering
* Support for colon-separated SGR sub-parameters (ISO/IEC 8613-6)
(xterm 282):
* SGR escapes for ISO/IEC 8613-6 RGB, CMY, CMYK, and indexed colour
formats.
* DECRQSS uses SGR sub-parameters for colour specifications (xterm 331).
* SGR 4:1...4:5 for underline styles solid, double, wavy, dotted, dashed.
* SGR 58/59 for underline colour (kitty, iTerm2).
* Fixed (almost) selection highlighting of emojis.
* Drawing Unicode Block Elements which are broken in many fonts (#264).
* Fixed initial bold as font suppression glitch (mintty/wsltty#103).
Window control
* DECSET 30 to enable/disable outer scrollbar (like xterm) (#159, ~#262).
* DECSET 1046 enables/disables alternate screen switching (xterm 331).
* Cursor style modes DECSET 12 (AT&T 610) (xterm 331) and SM 33/34
(Wyse).
Scrollbar
* Fixed scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O) from forcing scrollbar to the
right.
* Preventing font zooming after scrollbar toggle (Ctrl+Shift+O).
Window layout
* Background image or texture support (#18, #666).
Multi-monitor support
* Using Windows DPI handling V2, avoiding fluttering (#774, #470,
#492, ~#566, ~#547).
Text selection
* Drag-and-drop selection after focus click enabled by combined cell
and time distance (#717).
* Only suppress focus-click selection if focus reporting disabled or
mouse reporting not effective (#717).
* Ctrl+mouse-move hovering underlines URLs and filenames (#173).
* Selection highlighting can also indicate selection size (#660).
Window handling
* Revised Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab window switching (#773).
* Ctrl+Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab for window switching including iconized
windows (#735).
* Win+Shift move coupling of tab sets if SessionGeomSync ≥ 2 (#600,
#699).
Configuration
* CMY(K) colour specifications in OSC sequences and config file.
* Option Background and OSC 11 to set background image or texture
(#18, #666).
* Option SelectionShowSize to enable selection size indication (#660).
Themes management
* Fixed syntax error in `mintheme` tool (#764).
* Option `mintheme -d -q` for decimal colour format (#718).
* Supporting `mintheme` tool on WSL.
* Options `mintheme -p` and `mintheme -t` to set background picture
or texture.
* Options `mintheme -s` and `mintheme -S` for theme visualization and
comparison.
Other
* Updated Emoji data and built-in width data to Unicode 11.0.
* Enabled OSC 7 current directory injection for Ctrl+click in WSL
(mintty/wsltty#104).
* Reporting start error (exit status 255) (#745).
* Changed start error exit code from 255 to 126 (#745).
* Fixed slowdown of Character Info mode if Unicode data are not deployed.
* Option --WSLmode to tune behaviour for WSL distro but not launch
(mintty/wsltty#99).
* Clarified additional configuration requirements for option
TaskCommands in the manual.
The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.
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Thomas
