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by no-espam 5158 days ago
Windows! I spend most of my time coding in PuTTy + Vim when I'm on windows. In my limited testing this works as I expect with xterm-256, tmux, and Vim on my Ubuntu 12.04 Server without having to configure anything. PuTTy is a pain to configure on a new box.
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desipenguin 5156 days ago
tmux didn't work as expected for me. i.e. I could attach to my tmux sessions, as well as switch between the "panes" - but I couldn't see the status bar.

I also started a new tmux instance (rather than attach to existing one) still no status bar. Any suggestions ?

Edit : Problem solved. I went into Full screen mode (F11) after clicking in addressbar (When focus was on the terminal, F11 printed ~) Anyway, when I started tmux in full screen mode, I could see tmux status bar. I continued to see it even after I left full screen.

Not sure what was the (temporary) problem.

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luser001 5158 days ago
How do you save yourself the trouble of configuring this extension?

What sorts of configs have you had to do for Putty?

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no-espam 5158 days ago
Setting unicode, changing backspace, setting xterm-256 as the TERM variable, etc ... PuTTy configuration is unintuitive when you first try to configure it. There's a well known page dedicated to configuring PuTTy properly on Windows.
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kibwen 5158 days ago
I haven't tested this extensively myself, but have you looked at ExtraPuTTY?

http://www.extraputty.com/features.html

Seems like one of its goals is to make it easier to move PuTTY configurations from one machine to another.

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joelhaasnoot 5157 days ago
In addition to Putty being far from native...
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