Am 26.09.2025 um 07:33 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin:
This is a very minor and totally cosmetic issue, but it's been around
"forever" so I'm curious if I'm the only one seeing it.
When displaying colored text in mintty configured with a block cursor
and dark background, as the cursor moves across text (in vi, say) it
will change the color of the rightmost pixel column of certain
characters (not all). This happens when moving the cursor
left-to-right, and the discolored bits disappear (or go back to their
original color) when moving right-to-left.
I'm pretty sure this has to do with anti-aliasing, and may not even be
mintty's problem, but I've never seen it anywhere else.
I put a couple of small demonstration screenshots on Google Drive:
Actual size:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gF86FJMJqQJDaFHTVZXEZrMNIyRtTCSL/view?usp=sharing
Enlarged view:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zWPNZQvryILvqRhaiFE3O35L057R8jQ/view?usp=sharing
Is this effect affected by the Font smooting setting?
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