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PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Post by emmelaich »

oinksoft wrote: post #35
randallsquared wrote: post #6

Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

It's been a while since I was stuck on a Windows box, but I found the combination of Console2 (tabbed terminal emulator) with Cygwin[1] was quite nice. Then you can use `ssh', `scp', etc. like you would on a Unix machine. You might want to try this approach if you're willing to go as far as to do this from your browser (which gives me shivers). This was on Windows XP but I imagine it still works. [1] http://sourcefor…

Console2 looks good.

I played with "Putty Session Manager" for a while before moving entirely to Mintty under Cygwin.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Post by derleth »

thezilch wrote: post #39
gcb0 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold? just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...

Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.

You can run any WM Linux has on Ubuntu. I've heard good things about evilwm and have personally used ratpoison. They're both in the repository I'm sure.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Post by thezilch »

derleth wrote: post #52
thezilch wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.

You can run any WM Linux has on Ubuntu. I've heard good things about evilwm and have personally used ratpoison. They're both in the repository I'm sure.

I thought it'd be obvious I was speaking generally; suggesting "any WM" to the OP is still not helpful. Windows has just as many "any WM," so I really don't know your point.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

#54

Post by thezilch »

likeclockwork wrote: post #45
thezilch wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.

Linux is bigger than Ubuntu. There are Linux WMs that are FAR beyond what's available in Windows or OSX.

Obviously. Nothing you said is helpful to the OP or helps to support the post I replied to. Not to mention, Windows has numerous windowing or window tiling managers [0]; the Linux elitism is not helpful, especially when grossly misinformed.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#Microsoft...

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Post by alan_cx »

randallsquared wrote: post #6

Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

Disable the grouping?

Properties, Taskbar buttons, Never combine.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

#57

Post by voltagex_ »

VMG wrote: post #27
gcb0 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's two clicks after you install putty. select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default. done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default. I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.

Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time. There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.

The fork I'm just about to patch is FuTTY - https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY which includes save-settings-to-file. The screen resizing behaviour (as a result of Screen's +flow command) might drive you crazy though.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

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Post by ereckers »

randallsquared wrote: post #6

Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).

I've used Putty Connection Manager for tabbed management of multiple Putty windows for a few years now. Here's an older article about it:

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/putty-extreme-makeover-u...

Unfortunately the URL for the download is down at the moment. I know, inspiring, but here it is:

http://puttycm.free.fr/

It can be found on the Putty "links" page under "Multiple connection" here (along with some other options):

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/links.html

I used to use SecureCRT until I got tired of their weird format for private keys (not sure if that's still an issue since I stopped using it a few years ago).

Anyways, for what I was looking for Putty Connection Manager worked fine. Open many connections and cycle through the tabs with CTRL+TAB.

Re: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes

#59

Post by eru »

thezilch wrote: post #39
gcb0 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, because managing windows is not the problem a window manager would be responsible for... what then? you have a dozen word documents? and a dozen text files? and a dozen images? ... do you keep changing your tools everytime you pass a window number threshold? just get rid of windows 8. as troll as this comment may sound...

Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better? Note: I'm well aware of workspaces, but that can't be what you're referring to, as they are available to Win users, and it's not clear the OP is looking for anything more than tabs, which a WM isn't generally providing.

> Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better?

Try XMonad on Linux. It does allow me to manage my windows better.

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