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I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to do jumplist support for different putty sessions sessions on the windows 7 taskbar?
Roy Rico
Posted 2010-02-22T06:31:28.390
Reputation: 4 808
Jumplist support for putty for different session on the windows 7 taskbar
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My research, posted in the comments to Diago's answers, led me to this blog entry: PuTTY with Windows 7 jumplist support
It's by the same guy(s) who submitted the wish list entry and the patch.
There is a pre-compiled version of Putty with jumplist support at the bottom of the post. Works fine for me on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bits.
Support for Windows 7 jumplists has been added to the official version 0.61 (released on 2011-07-12, more than 4 years after the 0.60!).
Support for Windows 7's new user interface features. The new Aero window management should now play nicely with PuTTY's complicated window resize handling, and Windows 7 jump lists are now supported so you can launch saved sessions directly from the taskbar.
The Release Notes can be read here and the binaries can be downloaded here.
Snark
Posted 2010-02-22T06:31:28.390
Reputation: 30 147
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Jump-list support is a feature of the application and therefore can only be implemented by the developers. The application needs to have the ability to keep track of recently used files, and there is a specific developer API set that can be used to support the feature.
I can't recall if Putty is still actively being developed however you will most likely need to make a feature request for this. As pointed out by Snark there is a request for this here already, and the actual code is available here if your willing to compile yourself.
BinaryMisfit
Posted 2010-02-22T06:31:28.390
Reputation: 19 955
This request in the Putty Wish List: http://www.putty.nl/wishlist/win7-jumplists.html
– Snark – 2010-02-22T08:00:13.3072
Actually the code already exists, see here: http://speeltuin.infi.nl/~daniel/putty/ . Someone who can compile the Putty source code could generate an executable with jumplist support.
– Snark – 2010-02-22T09:05:05.067guess this will have to do until it's officially released... – Roy Rico – 2010-02-22T16:48:46.903
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Actually, there is a fully pre-compiled version that works with Windows 7 that you can find here and I've been using it for months with no issues. It hasn't crashed or failed to provide a JumpList.
The jump-list is opt-in and rather unobtrusive.
(Disclaimer: I wrote the page)
fahhem
Posted 2010-02-22T06:31:28.390
Reputation: 191
ya for pre-compiled – Roy Rico – 2010-02-22T18:33:03.693
I read the wish list entry and it seems to be fixed in r9046. So it is now in the trunk, but not in the official binaries. – guerda – 2011-06-30T09:28:38.500