Bug found: gethostbyname: unknown error when scrollbar is disabled

mario - Wed 09/08/2017 00:57:44 CEST +0200

Hi. I'm running latest kitty version (0.69.0.2). I'm using filesystem storage for sessions (savemode=dir) in kitty.ini.

If the scrollbar is disabled (/ScrollBar/0/ in session file) I won't be able to connect to my hosts, with the connection failing with the mentioned error.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Get kitty.exe and kitty.ini with the following content. These files must be in a new, empty folder.

```
[KiTTY]
savemode=dir
```

2. Add a new host. Any host. Save it.

3. Try connecting. The connection should succeed if it would normally.

4. Now close kitty, and reopen it. Load the saved host, and go to the Window options category.

5. Uncheck "Display scrollbar"

6. Try reconnecting with this iption unchecked. The connection will fail with `gethostbyname: unknown error`.

It seems very weird that such an unrelated option could lead to this result, but well, there you go.

Answer

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