Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread Yoz Grahame
On 1/23/07, seph wrote: Simon Wistow writes: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0500, seph said: >> While all software is hateful, the windows's "close window" button on >> the title bar works fine. If your window manager hides that, then it's >> truely hateful. > > Weirdly enough that was

Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread seph
Simon Wistow writes: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0500, seph said: >> While all software is hateful, the windows's "close window" button on >> the title bar works fine. If your window manager hides that, then it's >> truely hateful. > > Weirdly enough that was my first port of call - it'

Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread demerphq
On 1/23/07, Simon Wistow wrote: This is especially irritating when I've still got my connections open to other machines on the same LAN or the Xen instance I'm running on my machine because my shortcut of firing up the Task Manager and hitting kill process is nigh on impossible because the proce

Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread Hakim Cassimally
You can sometimes 'restart session' from a dead putty. But oddly sometimes not. (yes i'm using virtual dimensions too, also hateful) -- osfameron On 23/01/07, Simon Wistow wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0500, seph said: > While all software is hateful, the windows's "close window"

Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0500, seph said: > While all software is hateful, the windows's "close window" button on > the title bar works fine. If your window manager hides that, then it's > truely hateful. Weirdly enough that was my first port of call - it's not hidden it's just greyed

Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread seph
Simon Wistow writes: > The only way you can close a Putty session is by exiting the shell or by > killing the process in the Task Manager. While all software is hateful, the windows's "close window" button on the title bar works fine. If your window manager hides that, then it's truely hateful.

Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-23 Thread Simon Wistow
Given that PuTTY is generally pretty damn nifty I'm willing to possibly lay the blame on something else (for example, XP itself. Or a a peice of Virtual Desktop software I'm running called Virtual Dimension) hwoever the hate still stands with ... with SOMETHING DAMMIT. And it smells like this.

Re: There is a thing as too much flexibility

2007-01-23 Thread jrodman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:44:06PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote: > > I had a problem with the list view in Nautilus when I first installed Ubuntu > on a machine: all fields were unselected, so it showed nothing. > > I am told this was never supposed to happen, but it did. I guess the > restric

Re: There is a thing as too much flexibility

2007-01-23 Thread Robert Rothenberg
I had a problem with the list view in Nautilus when I first installed Ubuntu on a machine: all fields were unselected, so it showed nothing. I am told this was never supposed to happen, but it did. I guess the restriction was made at the UI level, but it (or at least the version I was using) nev

There is a thing as too much flexibility

2007-01-23 Thread David Mackintosh
So I get called to this user's desk at a new company I'm doing some work for. It seems that for the last two weeks, he's been firing up his Evolution and wondering why no email is visible, even though when he goes to OWA he can see and manipulate his email (as normally as you can when using Firefo