Is there a way to get colors to work in Puttycyg?

Color support is part of PuTTY -- please see the PuTTY documentation: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

If you find something that works in PuTTY but does not work in PuTTYcyg, please report it here: http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/issues/entry

@jhalterman

run puTTYcyg with the command line option: "-cygterm bash --login -i"

Ex: putty.exe -cygterm bash --login -i

Colors should work then.

Did you consider making this compatible with SFU/SUA as well? (cf: http://www.suacommunity.com/ )

is it possible to make PuTTYcyg running msys's shell instead of cygwin? msys's shell has not the cygwin dll dependency.

another question ( no, it's a curiosity ), do you think PuTTYcyg's code can help KDE4's Konsole port into mswindows? ( I do not understand well about that but I think the missing pty functionality in mswindows is the current problem of porting Konsole )

The Cygterm backend of PuTTYcyg cannot run msys, as it is not a Cygwin program.

I doubt that PuTTYcyg's code would help Konsole out much. But see the README file about pty's vs. the Windows console device.

thanks for the clarification.

Thanks for nice tool. I just faced the following problem, and solved it.It may be useful for others.

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cthelper.exe - Entry Point Not Found
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The procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. 
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OK   
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If you get the above error, copy the binary files [putty.exe, puttytel.exe and cthelper.exe] to your {cygwin_install_directory}/bin directory. Then try to execute putty.exe. It will work.

medgar123, thanks again for the clarification :)

konsole has been ported: http://lists.kde.org/?l=konsole-devel&m=123429088509347&w=2 http://lists.kde.org/?t=123353687000001&r=1&w=2

thank you :)

I am trying to modify the "Command prompt here" powertoy to use puttycyg, which should be pretty straight forward, except I can't figure out how to pass in the working directory as an argument. Is this possible?

Ikbatizy,

I'm not sure if I understood it well but I think I have an Idea.

first, let me see if I understood: -- you want to right-click a folder to open it in puttyCyg command prompt.

then, my idea: -- writing a simple program that converts mswindows paths into cygwin's paths e.g.: "C:\foo\bar" into "/cygdrive/c/foo/bar/", then this program calls puttycyg passing the directory as a parameter -- adding an entry in the mswindows registry to add the context menu option which should call the program mentioned above.

there are mswindows registry procedures to do so: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-add-remove-entries-in-context-menus/

I hope it can help.

I've just found something that can help:

http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Cygwin/BashHere

The file /usr/local/bin/dchanger:

#!/bin/bash
CHERE_INVOKING=true exec bash -rcfile /etc/profile

The registry command line:

C:\Cygwin\PuttyCyg\putty.exe -cygterm -load "Cygwin" /usr/local/bin/dchanger

For some reason it automagically knows which directory to change to. Don't ask me how.

Dear medgar123,

Thanks for writing puttycyg - it's great!

Kev

If you want to use windows console apps too (like ftp, telnet, etc) that do not work with putty(cyg) check this project too:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

Hi

Is it possible to use ssh-agent with puttycyg? I use key files +passwords and I do not want to put my password every 10 minutes :)

thanks

When I first installed, it didn't work. I had a pretty minimal CygWin? installation, with no X. So I tried installing rxvt, from the formal CygWin? package base, and about 5 or 6 other packages were listed as prerequisites, and installed to enable rxvt to run. (I should of saved the names :-) ). Anyway, afterward both rxvt and puttycyg worked. I would conclude you should make the names of whatever packages are needed available in the FAQ, because your fine tool really does have some prerequisites.

Dallas E. Legan II / legan@acm.org / dallas.legan@gmail.com / aw585@lafn.org http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com

@ramandv: The error message "The procedure entry point blahblah could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" means that you have multiple installations of Cygwin or you are using an older PuTTYcyg with a newer Cygwin (or vice versa). I've added a FAQ for this.

@benjamin.schallar: A long time ago, PuTTYcyg worked on SFU, but I found that I could not support it properly, and there doesn't seem to be enough interest.

To support SFU, one only needs an SFU-compiled cthelper.exe binary (there is no need to recompile the stock PuTTYcyg putty.exe). Whether cthelper will compile without modifications on current SFU systems, I do not know.

Volunteers are welcome. :)

@lkbatizy: Support for "Command prompt here" should probably be added to the 'chere' package which ships with Cygwin. Ideally, in addition to the 'cmd', 'rxvt', and 'xterm' terminals it currently supports, it should also support 'puttycyg' and 'mintty'. I don't have the time to add this support; maybe someone will do this someday?

@baykusderki: You want to ssh with PuTTY, but use SSH keys stored in a Cygwin instance of ssh-agent? I just answered the opposite question here: http://serverfault.com/questions/97164/can-i-use-plink-and-pageant-with-cygwins-ssh

Unfortunately, the opposite is not as easy, AFAIK. One would have to write an ssh-agent client which looks (to PuTTY) like pageant.

@dallas.legan: AFAIK, PuTTYcyg has no dependencies beyond a base Cygwin installation. I've filed http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/issues/detail?id=31. Please don't report issues in the comments! File an issue instead!

Can I minimize PuTTYcyg to the tray?

On Jan 19, elitesai wrote: > Can I minimize PuTTYcyg to the tray?

You can minimize any Windows program to the tray, but for some reason this feature is not built-in to Windows. There are several freeware and shareware utilities which promise to accomplish this. I haven't tried any of them myself.

You might want to try http://rbtray.sf.net/ which is open source. Let me know if it works.

Also, it seems that http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ also supports minimize-to-tray, among other features. It hasn't seen a release in 4.5 years however.

http://gleamynode.net/articles/1543/

chere-like for PuTTyCyg ;)

Very useful tool. You should add it to the cygwin distro ... The problems got resolved in my case by just copying it to the bin directory of the cygwin installation ( where the cygwin1.dll is located )

Very Useful tool, just had question if there is way to disable opening the cygwin terminal also along with the putty terminal, whenever I open cygwin using cygwin.bat?

@nag: Yes: don't run cygwin.bat under PuTTYcyg.