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- WSLtty ( https://github.com/mintty/wsltty ) Better than the Windows Terminal for WSL. You can work in tmux without getting strange visual artifacts, and allows you to view sixel graphics in console! Fair warning though, I only installed…

comment by saeranv · 2022-12-29 · in Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

…and thrown out. I highly recommend to check out WSLtty if you're interested in a good WSL terminal: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty It has equally as low input latency, really good keyboard shortcut support, clickable URLs, tmux works…

comment by nickjj · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9

…http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/ [2]: http://keypirinha.com/ [3]: https://www.autohotkey.com/ [4]: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by nickjj · 2019-09-06 · in PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

Have you tried the mintty solution for WSL? https://github.com/mintty/wsltty I've found it to be the most consistent and performant. Still not the same as being in a native Linux environment, of course, but it's the closest I've been able…

comment by s_c_r · 2019-06-17 · in The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows

…I found that fewer of the default keybindings conflict with those in my shell, tmux and vim. [0] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by davb · 2019-06-17 · in The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows

…color support those web-based terminal emulators. [1] https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1968 [2] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by hs86 · 2019-03-24 · in Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal

I've been using this and seems to have all the functionality you'd want. https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by 013 · 2019-03-22 · in Pretty PuTTY – Better PuTTY Settings

Thanks! With msys2, pacman -Syu then pacman -Su will update your minty to 2.9.9, which according to https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/145 should include the 30 ms patch. It feels quite smooth to me, but I haven't done measurements

comment by 1996 · 2019-03-21 · in Terminal latency (2017)

You might like wsltty ( https://github.com/mintty/wsltty ). It's mintty for WSL which in essence is putty with just the terminal capabilites.

comment by silverwind · 2019-03-17 · in PuTTY 0.71 released, fixing security vulnerabilities

…WSL is not perfect, but it's good enough for a lot of use cases if you're stuck on Windows. [0]: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by saxonww · 2018-10-27 · in Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

Mintty works great for me. Their wsltty installer works wonders: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by Svenskunganka · 2018-09-06 · in Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

Mintty + tmux. It's how I survive Windows. Also: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by erikbye · 2018-07-20 · in Inside the Windows Console

…simply set DISPLAY in shell and local GUI programs just work, as well as SSH X forwarding. [1] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/ (EDIT: typo)

comment by lsc36 · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

…wslbridge[1] that connects wsltty[2] to WSL compiles the frontend component under cygwin. [1]: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty [2]: https://github.com/rprichard/wslbridge

comment by roller · 2017-09-14 · in Windows for Linux Nerds

I use wsltty which is mintty for the WSL. https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by tym0 · 2017-09-14 · in Windows for Linux Nerds

This is the most decent I've come across. https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by swinglock · 2017-07-10 · in Ubuntu is now available on the Windows Store

…a good chance that it'll run pretty snappily: I've noticed Bash + Vim is quite fast on Windows. [1] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by reissbaker · 2017-06-23 · in Atom 1.18 released

wsltty works alright. There's room for improvement for sure. https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by swinglock · 2017-05-11 · in New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

…and its unix-like tools to use it, there's smaller bundles specifically made for WSL like this one: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty I personally don't want a terminal with built-in tabs or windows since I use tmux for that. On my Mac I…

comment by Svenskunganka · 2017-04-12 · in What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

…built-in 'cmd', with options to open other shells like fish/zsh/etc in arbitrary directories. [0] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by ac29 · 2017-04-12 · in Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Give this a whirl: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by Raticide · 2017-02-21 · in PuTTY 0.68 has been released

…MinTTY with the Ubuntu subsystem and the regular old Ubuntu SSH client. Specifically this thing: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty It's real nice and even supports 24bit colour if you're into that.

comment by Raticide · 2017-02-21 · in PuTTY 0.68 has been released

I currently have zero issues running tmux and bunch of other software in mintty/wsltty https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by avlasyuk · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

I've been using mintty and it's been pretty nice so far https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by drampelt · 2017-01-17 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux Distribution Switcher

…that does everything I want reliably is embedding a special build of mintty into ConEmu/Cmder. https://github.com/mintty/wsltty Here is the ConEmu task that I use: %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --wsl -o Locale=C -o Charset=UTF-8…

comment by kirillkh · 2017-01-10 · in Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

I'm using https://github.com/mintty/wsltty as a terminal for WSL, because it feels the closest to a Linux terminal for me. Give it a go.

comment by rcarmo · 2017-01-03 · in Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X

…Windows I either use Cygwin's mintty or (more recently) wsltty to interact with Bash for Windows: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty (even though I'm a Microsoft employee, I strongly dislike the "feel" of the standard console and the way it…

comment by rcarmo · 2016-11-08 · in Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment

…apt-get. I found the default terminal pretty lacking, but you can now use mintty as the terminal: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty With this, it's possibly a better Unix experience than macOS. I haven't used it enough to confidently make…

comment by nilkn · 2016-11-07 · in Homebrew 1.1.0

Mintty is the best one I've come across. It even works with WSL https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

comment by avtar · 2016-10-28 · in HP: the pros are moving from Mac to Z