SluTTY - fork of PuTTY with cosmetic changes

August 07, 2011

About

SluTTY is a fork of PuTTY with cosmetic changes.

Why?

I got really tired of PuTTY’s default color scheme (especially on Windows). The dark blue is nearly impossible to read. This really started to get on my nerves when having to read other people’s computer screens and needing to place my face 3 inches away from the screen to read directoy listings (the default color for directories used the dark blue). What’s even more troubling is these people seem to have no problem with this.

Therefore I decided to fork my own putty and build a Windows executable.

Thank you Simon

Huge thanks to Simon Tatham for such a great utility. It really has saved me countless hours of frustration when using SSH on Windows.

Changes

  • Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express
  • New colors (see screen shot below)
  • Scrollback buffer is now 2000 lines instead of 200

Download

  • Win32 binary (built 2011-09-03 10:14:46 sha-256: e0a9c33e9ffff5a14f7d2891f16fe4453a99c160067bfe4a522bdd570b2a3fbe)
  • github

Screen Shots

Old:

yuck

New:

awesome

Building

To build from git

  1. Install Visual Studio
  2. Checkout git://github.com/aflott/slutty.git
  3. Run cmd.exe
  4. cd to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin (or the equivalent)
  5. Run vcvars32.bat (this sets all the environment vars so nmake runs
  6. Generate the makefiles: perl mkfiles.pl
  7. cd windows
  8. nmake -f Makefile.vc
  9. You should now see a putty.exe in the windows directory