Updated: mintty 3.7.7

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Sat Dec 21 12:55:57 GMT 2024


I have uploaded mintty 3.7.7 with the following changes:

Terminal features
   * VT52 emulation absolute position keeps row/column if out-of-bounds
(#1299).

Character rendering
   * Reenabled distinct blinking for combined characters (broken since
3.5.3).
   * Fix skipping of accent to next position on background colour.
   * Fix drawing of Powerline round symbols (mintty/wsltty#358).
   * Fix rendering of right-to-left scripts on italic or cursor position.
   * Tweak diagonal box characters for uniform appearance.
   * Limit double-width enforcement by ZWJ to potential emoji base
characters.

Window handling
   * Show new tab at its target position right away (#1292).
   * Live changing of reordered tabs while being dragged (#1293).
   * Change mouse pointer while tab dragging (#1293).
   * Adapt dynamic tab drag highlighting (~#1293).
   * Swipe visualisation of tab reorder dragging (~#1293).
   * New windows/Alt+F2 launches terminal on same monitor (broken since
2.9.5).
   * Maximise/Restore keeps window on same monitor (broken since 3.6.5,
~#1226).
   * Virtual transparency: fix background offset on multiple monitors
(#1296).
   * Virtual transparency: fix background offset with options
Scrollbar=left or BorderStyle=frame/void (#1296).
   * Image background: keep updated while moving/resizing.

Misc
   * Avoid potentially blocking retrieval of printers list (#1295).
   * Option -RR reports list of available printers.

The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.

------
Thomas


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