bashterminalcygwinmintty

How to enable blinking on mintty (Cygwin Terminal) on Windows 10

I read that mintty supports blinking text but do not know how to set it up so I can display blinking text. eg echo -e "\e[6mMy blinking text\e[0m"

I Googled it but nothing comes up.

Solution

  • You can print text with blink attribute :

    echo "$(tput blink)Blinking text$(tput sgr0)"

    tput sgr0 reset colors

    You need to start mintty with :

    mintty -o AllowBlinking=yes