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

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From: demerphq
Subject: Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.
Date: 11:56 on 24 Jan 2007
On 1/23/07, Yoz Grahame <yoz@xxx.xxx> wrote:
> On 1/23/07, seph <seph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Simon Wistow <simon@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> 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's not hidden it's
> > > just greyed out. And the close item is gone from the window context
> > > menu.
> > >
> > > And it's only PuTTY, nothing else.
> >
> > My Putty hasn't ever done that. Active or inactive.
>
> Nor mine. Furthermore, when my PuTTY's connection dies, it pops up a
> warning box to this effect, and on OK the whole window closes away.
> This is mildly hateful in itself, but for exactly the opposite reason,
> in that I now need to restart PuTTY and choose the connection I want
> in order to restore a dead one.

If that warning box is modal and is being rendered on the wrong
desktop I bet it explains the greyed out close buttons on Simon's
putty windows.

Cheers,
Yves


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