Feature Request: Running KiTTy from read-only media

Ivan Shatsky - Tue 27/03/2018 23:22:02 CEST +0200

Hello!
I'm migrating from+portable PuTTy
http://jakub.kotrla.net/putty/
to portable KiTTy and would like to ask developers, what they are thinking about implementing a feature to run KiTTy from read-only media. For now it is working, but a non-critical error occured when KiTTy tries to open "Sessions\Default Settings" file for writing, and another non-critical error occured when KiTTy tries to create/update "Jumplist\RecentSessions" file.
Portable PuTTy version have a config file where jumplist feature can be disabled completely.
Such feature can be implemented by adding "-readonly" command line parameter or by setting/checking read-only attribute on a "Sessions\Default Settings" file.
Anyway, thank you for a great piece of software, some features like a key mapping or knockd support are really awesome.

manu - Wed 28/03/2018 13:09:57 CEST +0200

+1

I feel readonly mode is usefull on several scenarios.

Cyd - Wed 28/03/2018 21:43:28 CEST +0200

Please test this beta build: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/data/beta/kitty.exe
There is a new -readonly command-line option and this new config file parameter
[KiTTY]
readonly=yes

Ivan Shatsky - Thu 29/03/2018 00:14:45 CEST +0200

Tested both command-line option and config file parameter, with and without "Jumplist" folder, on a write-protected media.
Everything is worked as expected.
Thank you very much!

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