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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 382

[solved] Font change dialog fails with PuTTY 0.64, hangs the app

PuTTY was upgraded from 0.63 to 0.64 early in March, and now when I attempt to change fonts the app freezes at 100% on one cpu.

x86_64 installed from package repository and from AUR. 

A fellow on comp.terminals says he could not reproduce this on Xubuntu 14.04.2 running 0.64; but when I tested it on Xbuntu 15.04 PuTTY was version 0.63, and there was no problem.

My little laptop i686 does not do this.

I can change the fonts by editing the stored session files in ~/.putty/sessions/...

So I'm wondering if anybody else has seen this on 0.64 on x86_64... .. ?

I been using PuTTY since the Dead Sea was just sick, on many platforms and use it daily ⋯ this was a surprize... .. !

Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2015-06-03 18:50:35)

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Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius

keepitsimpleengineer

Member

From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 382

Re: [solved] Font change dialog fails with PuTTY 0.64, hangs the app

The culprit was a surreptitiously and slowly failing disk drive. Now that it has been replaced, PuTTY works as expected.

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Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius