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The fixed tab stops that we used to use in the old LBS_HASSTRINGS list box, and that I carefully replicated in the new owner-drawn version, are no more! Now, every time we refresh the key list, we actually _measure_ the maximum size of string that needs to fit into each column, and size the columns based on that. Now I don't have to worry any more about whether the set of algorithm names might one day overflow the fixed column width, or whether a particularly unlucky choice of key with lots of wide letters like M and W in its base64-encoded SHA256 hash might do the same. Also, the previous column sizes were pessimistic (for reason of exactly that worry), so this change generally moves things over towards the left of the list box - which means there's now room for longer key comments, and more chance of the suffixes '(encrypted)' or '(re-encryptable)' being visible on the right.
This is the README for PuTTY, a free Windows and Unix Telnet and SSH
client.
PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in
the source directory:
cmake .
cmake --build .
Then, to install in the simplest way on Linux or Mac:
cmake --build . --target install
On Unix, pterm would like to be setuid or setgid, as appropriate, to
permit it to write records of user logins to /var/run/utmp and
/var/log/wtmp. (Of course it will not use this privilege for
anything else, and in particular it will drop all privileges before
starting up complex subsystems like GTK.) The cmake install step
doesn't attempt to add these privileges, so if you want user login
recording to work, you should manually ch{own,grp} and chmod the
pterm binary yourself after installation. If you don't do this,
pterm will still work, but not update the user login databases.
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. If you aren't using one of our
source snapshots, you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be
found at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.