To make sure all extended capabilities can be queried correctly, it is
necessary to compile the terminfo file using the `-x` flag.
Since Alacritty specified support for the XTerm mouse mode (XM/xm),
using the `-x` flag was not possible until now without breaking programs
like `htop`. By removing this flag, these issues should be resolved.
This fixes https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/2131.
To make things easier to understand for Windows users, the
relationship between Alacritty and the WinPTY agent has been
clarified in the documentation.
This also bundles the windows agent and exe together in a zip file to
make distribution for windows easier on the user.
Initial support for Windows is implemented using the winpty translation
layer. Clipboard support for Windows is provided through the `clipboard`
crate, and font rasterization is provided by RustType.
The tty.rs file has been split into OS-specific files to separate
standard pty handling from the winpty implementation.
Several binary components are fetched via build script on windows
including libclang and winpty. These could be integrated more directly
in the future either by building those dependencies as part of the
Alacritty build process or by leveraging git lfs to store the artifacts.
Fixes#28.
Alacritty's manual installation instructions take up a lot of space in
the README and they are hard to navigate because there's a lot of
information for specific distros which are irrelevant to most users.
To improve this situation, the manual installation section has been
moved to the `INSTALL.md` file. This allows keeping the readme to a
minimum which just includes the straight-forward instructions required
to install it on systems which provide packages for it.
Having a separate file also makes it possible to add a full index just
for the installation instructions, which makes it possible to skip
sections which are irrelevant.
Christian Duerr