ConEmu vs mintty
ConEmu
conemu.github.iomintty
mintty.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | ConEmu | mintty |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Terminal Emulators | 8.3 (#10) | 8.2 (#17) |
| Spec score · Terminal apps | 8.1 (#17) | 7.9 (#27) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The maker describes deep integration with Far Manager, including plugins, macros, thumbnails, and tiles. | Mintty is installed as the default Cygwin Terminal, comes with MSYS2, and is installed by default in Git for Windows as Git Bash. |
| Purpose | ConEmu is a local Windows terminal emulator that hosts console applications and simple GUI applications in one customizable tabbed window. | Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, MSYS2, derived projects, and WSL. |
| Scripting API | Yes | Yes |
| Security | The maker says a digital certificate is used to sign ConEmu binaries and identifies the current certificate as obtained from Sectigo. | The manual says mintty prompts for confirmation before pasting multiline clipboard contents when line-ending controls are not filtered, as a measure against malicious command-line pastes. |
| Split panes | Yes | No |
| SSH support | Yes | No |
| Support | The maker directs users to documentation, an issue tracker, a mailing list, and feedback links, and invites bug reports. | The project directs bug reports and enhancement suggestions to its GitHub issue tracker and general Cygwin questions to the Cygwin mailing list. |
| Supported platforms | Windows | Windows |
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In their own words
mintty
mintty is a free Windows terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, MSYS2, related projects, and WSL. It provides xterm-compatible emulation and DEC terminal screen controls, with 256 colours, True Colour, Unicode, bidirectional text, emoji, Arabic shaping, image display, Sixel, ReGIS, and Tektronix 4014 graphics emulation. Input features include configurable shortcuts, Unicode composition, AltGr, Windows IME, mouse modes, selection, copy and paste, drag and drop, and Ctrl-click opening of files or URLs. Window features include virtual tabs, session switching, fullscreen, transparency, multiple monitors, and high DPI. Options can be supplied on the command line or in a text configuration file, without registry entries. mintty is the default Cygwin Terminal, installed by default in MSYS2, included with Git for Windows as Git Bash, and able to host WSL. It omits PuTTY networking functionality; the project points to OpenSSH and inetutils packages instead. The listed latest release is 3.8.3.