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MinTTY's interface currently is in English only, but particularly for
initial configuration and also for consistency with the rest of the system
it would be nice to have support for other languages. This should probably
be done using gettext.

When invoked from a batch script such as Cygwin.bat, mintty leaves the
console window open whereas with rxvt it only flashes up briefly. Closing
all the standard files makes no difference, so rxvt must be doing something
more to detach itself.

(A better way to invoke mintty is through a shortcut, which avoids opening
a cmd.exe session altogether.)

Currently the Readme is the only documentation, so a few wiki pages are needed.

Currently the same alpha value is applied to the whole window, including
text and window frame. This is done rather simply by turning the window
into a "layered" window and setting it LWA_ALPHA attribute.

It would look better though if only the background was transparent, which
could be done using UpdateLayeredWindow() and an appropriate BLENDFUNCTION.
Trouble is, the standard controls don't work with that, so that a custom
scrollbar and the window controls would need to be implemented. This would
be far too much bother for what it's worth though, so it ain't gonna happen.

Vista's "Desktop Window Manager", however, might make this more doable.
Here's a blog that explains it:

http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2006/08/10/Windows-Vista-for-Developers
-_1320_-Part-3-_1320_-The-Desktop-Window-Manager.aspx