I'm using putty from a Windows XP box to ssh onto multiple other machines. If I accidentally hold a key down too long (so it repeats more than a few times), or type too fast, putty goes into "crawl mode" so only one keystroke appears every two or three seconds. This problem doesn't happen in putty on other machines here. Is there some setting which might fix the problem? The problem isn't at the destination machine, it happens with any machine putty connects to.
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Deleting the whole PuTTY reg hive [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham] seems to have cured the problem - thanks for the clue. (There was no "known-good" machine handy to compare with, and nothing in the settings jumped out as obviously messed up; and the problem is/wasn't in Windows itself - the cmd prompt works fine.) edit: unfortunately the problem has not been cured. It's apparent that it is NOT an issue with putty, because the same behavior occurs when using ssh from cygwin (so I'm probably wrong in thinking it is not a Windows problem.) More unfortunately I have NO clue how to begin finding a cure. | ||||
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Go into the Change Settings dialog in PuTTY. Compare the settings in Terminal, Keyboard, Bell and Features (four categories) to a known-good machine. My bet is on something in Line Discipline under Terminal or on one of the Bell settings. I'm assuming you're connecting over a network and not a serial connection. Also start a Windows console (CMD.EXE) and see if you get that behavior there (or in something like Notepad). If so, then it's a Windows issue and not a PuTTY one. | |||
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