Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-10-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 27 sep 14, 11:55:05, Martin Read wrote: > On 27/09/14 02:48, Stephen Powell wrote: > >I'm not sure that the Debian wiki is the right place for this information. > >Although there is a Linux port of PuTTY, 99% of PuTTY users are > >Windows users, including me. Although it may be used to logi

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 03:34:58 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:48, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> PuTTY currently does not support 256-color mode. See >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/256-colours.html > > That page indicates that putty had s

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-27 Thread Martin Read
On 27/09/14 02:48, Stephen Powell wrote: I'm not sure that the Debian wiki is the right place for this information. Although there is a Linux port of PuTTY, 99% of PuTTY users are Windows users, including me. Although it may be used to login remotely to a Debian system, PuTTY itself is Windows s

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 02:48, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I'm not sure that the Debian wiki is the right place for this information. > Although there is a Linux port of PuTTY, 99% of PuTTY users are > Windows users, including me. Although it may be used to login remotely > to a Debian system, PuTTY

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:53:44 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I've enjoyed reading your well-written and thoroughly researched posts. Have > you considered putting them somewhere else, e.g. the Debian wiki? I'm not sure that the Debian wiki is the right place for this information. Althoug

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi Stephen, I've enjoyed reading your well-written and thoroughly researched posts. Have you considered putting them somewhere else, e.g. the Debian wiki? One point: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:11:41PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > One of the things I recommended was setting the terminal type st

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:39:39 -0400 (EDT), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Good tips all around. Only thing is that I stopped using screen in > favor of tmux a few years ago. The biggest aggravation is the loss of > translation of keys, such as Ctl-left, Ctl-right, etc. (connecting from > another Debian

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/09/2014 23:39, Nate Bargmann a écrit : > Good tips all around. Only thing is that I stopped using screen in > favor of tmux a few years ago. The biggest aggravation is the loss of > translation of keys, such as Ctl-left, Ctl-right, etc. (connecting from > another Debian system is fine). Pe

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
Good tips all around. Only thing is that I stopped using screen in favor of tmux a few years ago. The biggest aggravation is the loss of translation of keys, such as Ctl-left, Ctl-right, etc. (connecting from another Debian system is fine). Perhaps that is a PuTTY issue or I don't have tmux conf

Re: PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stephen Powell: > > In another post a couple of months ago (see > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/07/msg00592.html) I gave some > recommendations for optimal PuTTY settings for use with Debian hosts. > I'd like to follow up on that based on recent discoveries that I have made. … > I hop

PuTTY tips for Debian users

2014-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
In another post a couple of months ago (see https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/07/msg00592.html) I gave some recommendations for optimal PuTTY settings for use with Debian hosts. I'd like to follow up on that based on recent discoveries that I have made. One of the things I recommended wa