We did a few patches to PuTTY SSH client to reduce user experience (UX) inconveniences for heavy duty users (like us :). The problem rise when you are using the old (0.62) version on a laptop, 3G connections and have connections open to 20+ servers. When you sleep or hibernate your laptop, all the connections drop and previously you couldn’t distinguish which session was which to reconnect (all 20+ windows just said ”inactive”). In addition, reconnecting the sessions was previously a burden. However, we fixed it 🙂
1) You can now reconnect an inactive session in PuTTY by pushing enter, like on SSH Tectia client.
2) When the session disconnects, you don’t get anymore the annoying OK -dialog.
3) The title of the window shows the IP of the server also when the session is inactive, unlike before.
You can download our custom build PuTTY from here. It’s build based on the 0.62 sources, compiled by PHZ.fi using Visual Studio 2010.