sharing config between two computers

john - Tue 19/09/2017 14:49:15 CEST +0200

Hi, I have a laptop and dekstop, and with putty keeping them in sync was a pain (frequent export of registry, or manual setup of new sites).

I see that kitty has a save to file option.

If I set this on both machines, and point both to the same onedrive folder, will this work?

I do have some sessions with auto-login passwords set. I see there is an option to encrypt these, but I dont understand how this works. Is there a global password I could set and use on both machines?

Thanks!

John.

Manu - Wed 20/09/2017 09:12:47 CEST +0200

Hi,

I do this for years! KiTTY with all config in files and a "Sync" files service (any that you like).
However, take into account that you need to use a "secure" Sync service!

Cyd - Wed 20/09/2017 09:15:36 CEST +0200

Password is encrypted in your session settings file.
But there is no "global" password.

Aleks - Wed 20/09/2017 23:01:46 CEST +0200

Hi, I would like to do something similar with Kitty and I'd like to know if this is possible: launch a local/portable instance of Kitty (e.g. in C:\Software\Kitty) but use a Sessions folder located somewhere else, in a different folder than the kitty.exe or kitty_portable.exe. But so far, whenever I launch kitty.exe it always looks for a Sessions folder (and ini file) located in the same folder as the exe file. I also tried editing the ini file and setting something like "configdir=X:\Kitty" where X: would be for example a network folder I could mount on all PCs where I want to use Kitty with the same Sessions files. Is this possible somehow, to tell it where to look for the Sessions files?

Manu - Fri 22/09/2017 14:52:25 CEST +0200

> "configdir=X:\Kitty"

Great idea!

Aleks - Fri 22/09/2017 19:17:15 CEST +0200

> "Great idea!"
Yea but it doesn't seem to work! Does setting this option work for you?

Cyd - Sat 23/09/2017 21:10:52 CEST +0200

To point to a specific directory for the configuration you must add these lines to your %APPDATA%/KiTTY/kitty.ini file
[KiTTY]
configdir=X:\Kitty

Aleks - Mon 25/09/2017 21:34:40 CEST +0200

Cyd,
Can you explain a bit more how this works? Are you saying for a non-portable KiTTY you have to have a %APPDATA%/KiTTY/kitty.ini with at least those two lines, and then in X:\Kitty you will place another kitty.ini and subfolders that will override what's in the first kitty.ini file?

How can this work for kitty_portable.exe, where it presumably doesn't look for a %APPDATA%/KiTTY/kitty.ini file, is it possible to specfiy an alternate config directory, and if so, what configuration can be moved to the alternate location?

Cyd - Mon 25/09/2017 22:41:25 CEST +0200

Sorry for that, I never use portable mode !
In portable mode kitty.ini is located in the same directory where kitty.exe is.

Aleks - Tue 26/09/2017 00:25:23 CEST +0200

So after messing around with it I see that %APPDATA%/KiTTY/kitty.ini will be the ONLY ini file that's needed. If I'm not mistaken when you use "savemode=dir" then no .sav file is needed at all in any location?

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