PuTTY bug x-settings-ignored

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summary: Settings specified via X resources / -xrm argument can be ignored
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
absent-in: 0.70
present-in: 1b2f39c24bb6591a4192377d9393f5c3e45cb5bd 0.71
fixed-in: 39c20d4819794417e4e84429d1eb5430e3865b25 0.72

In the Unix GUI versions of PuTTY tools (pterm/putty/puttytel), some settings can be configured via X resources (if running under X11), and/or the -xrm argument. (This is mainly intended/documented for pterm.)

In version 0.71, if a session was started in one of those tools without using a saved session, and the 'Default Settings' pseudo-session had never been explicitly saved by the user, any configuration in X resources or -xrm arguments would be ignored.

A workaround is to ensure that the 'Default Settings' file exists (even if empty). For most configurations of PuTTY, this should work (you may need to create the intervening directories first):

touch ~/.putty/sessions/Default%20Settings

For some setting types, this was fixed in version 0.72. (Boolean settings were ignored for rather longer; see x-bool-settings-ignored.)

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-13 23:45:47 +0000)