MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin. It is based on the terminal code from PuTTY, which Andy Koppe (an ex-colleague) has taken and made to execute as a cygwin process, so it can host a shell without the trickery required with PuTTYCyg.
OK, so it’s a terminal emulator — nothing particularly ground-breaking. PuTTY is quite the nicest terminal available for Windows, though, and it’s nice to be able to use it for Cygwin and not to have to worry about cthelper processes (or have to log in to localhost using SSH). MinTTY also features simplifies configuration and has a really nifty (and possibly unique) feature — it allows mouse positioning within shell command lines, keeping track of valid positions by looking at whether a line is explicitly broken and passing in the correct number of cursor movements. It’s also got customisable mouse actions and will attempt to provide scrolling using the wheel to full-screen programs that don’t enable mouse-handling.
It’s one of the programs I interact with most day-to-day (being stuck on Windows at work) and I heartily recommend it. MinTTY is available through Cygwin’s setup or at http://code.google.com/p/mintty/.
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