MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin. It is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.

It can be downloaded from here or it can be installed through Cygwin's setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category. The Cygwin installer creates a shortcut for MinTTY in the Windows start menu.

Features include:

• Xterm-compatible terminal emulation, including support for modifier keys and application mouse mode.
• Native Windows user interface that tries to keep things simple.
• Support for UTF-8, CJK fonts, and Windows IMEs.
• Drag & drop and copy & paste of text, files and folders. (Files and folders are inserted as quoted filenames.)
• Mousewheel events can be sent as arrow keys. (This allows mousewheel scrolling e.g. in less.)
• Options are stored in a text file. No registry entries.
• Window transparency.
• Program icon created by KDE's Oxygen project.
• Small executable size (currently <120K).

MinTTY should work on Windows 2000 and upwards. It gets tested on XP, Vista, and se7en. Similarly to other pty-based Cygwin terminals though, MinTTY is not a full replacement for the Windows Command Prompt. While Windows console programs with simple text output should be fine, interactive programs are unlikely to work correctly.

Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the issue tracker. Vote for any issues you'd particularly like to see addressed by starring them. The discussion group for all things MinTTY is mintty-discuss. Questions can also be sent to the Cygwin mailing list.