GNOME Console vs mintty
GNOME Console
apps.gnome.orgmintty
mintty.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | GNOME Console | mintty |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Terminal apps | 8.4 (#7) | 7.9 (#27) |
| Spec score · Terminal Emulators | 8.5 (#8) | 8.2 (#17) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Console is a simple, user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop. | Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, MSYS2, derived projects, and WSL. |
| Support | GNOME’s contribution guide says Console’s page does not currently provide information on where to inspect issues. | The project directs bug reports and enhancement suggestions to its GitHub issue tracker and general Cygwin questions to the Cygwin mailing list. |
| Supported platforms | linux | Windows |
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In their own words
GNOME Console
GNOME Console has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
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.