Package: putty Version: 0.63-8 Severity: normal Thanks to David G. on #debian @ irc.oftc.net for bringing this to my attention and helping with testing and finding the commit that fixes the issue. He first discovered this bug using Windows PuTTY 0.63 connecting to a Debian wheezy system running Dwarf Fortress. It also affects the version currently in jessie.
David discovered that parts of the display that were bolded were disappearing (black text on a black background). He asked upstream and obtained this helpful workaround: This sounds like a known problem in PuTTY 0.63, where a setting's value was inadvertently changed. Try changing "Window->Colours->Indicate bolded text by changing" to "The colour", or upgrading to a current development snapshot. I confirmed this issue in 0.63-8 on sid, first by checking the default setting, which is "The font", not "The colour" as it should be, and second by using a capture of Dwarf Fortress output provided by David, which I have attached. Just cat the file in PuTTY using default settings and compare to cat in xterm, which displays it properly. In PuTTY, the whole menu disappears, rendering the application practically unusable. The patch for this is at: http://tartarus.org/~simon-git/gitweb/?p=putty.git;a=commit;h=c0b6e0b9626baecab20ba6946dc26a75f187e2cf Workaround: If you're having this problem, as upstream advised, just make the configuration change indicated above. That makes the test file display properly for me, and also worked for David. Thanks, Ben
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