.minttyrc colour schemes & fonts
12 July 2015
Mintty is a fantastic terminal program; it’s now the default with Cygwin for some time. There are a range of others such as xterm and rxvt, but mintty does the trick for me. You can change all the settings by right-clicking on the window and going into ‘options’, but that modifies a file called .minttyrc in your home directory, so you have the alternative of using a text editor if you wish. Mine goes like so: