After Login Commands for Putty

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Hello,

I am trying to set putty to full screen after logging in. The Command for this is Alt + Enter. In the After Login Commands in Remote Desktop Manager I entered %{ENTER}. As shown here (http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/index.html?settings_events_autotypingmacro.htm) this should produce Alt + Enter. However in Putty, RDP types the percent sign followed by an Enter. It seems to not understand % is Alt. Is the documentation incorrect or is this a bug?

Ryan

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Hello,

Some of the after login commands are not working properly and need to be corrected in the application.

This is already on the ToDo list of our engineering department.

Unfortunately, the support department cannot provide with an exact release date as the full process (Build/Quality Assurance/Release) is completely outside of our control.

Best regards,

Jeff Dagenais

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Hello,

Could you try putting {ALT}{ENTER} rather than %{ENTER}?

Regards,

Hubert Mireault

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That would't accomplish what I am looking to do. According to the macro page (http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/index.html?settings_events_autotypingmacro.htm) I need %{Enter}.

I tried {ALT}{ENTER} anyway, but it didn't work. It appears to type alt then enter when I need alt+enter.

It appears this is still broken despite all the recent updates. :/

Ryan

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The macros work a little differently for PuTTY currently which means it sends text rather than the key codes represented. I made a change internally that will be available in the next version, which should at least allow you to send {ALT}{ENTER}

As for the help topic it is out of date and we'll update it with more accurate information as soon as possible.

Regards,

Hubert Mireault

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Do you mean that entering {ALT}{ENTER} would produce the same as holding ALT+ENTER? This seems quite counter to the key codes used everywhere else.

Ryan

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Yes, that is right. Due to the added layer over the .NET SendKeys methods that we added in the past, it causes a few compatibility issues that we had to workaround (for example, "{ALT}" instead of "%".

We plan to have a "{Sendkeys:<command>}" command which will send the exact text entered to the Sendkeys class. This will allow to use "%" for alt, etc. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,

Hubert Mireault

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Thank you. I will try it out on the next release. :)

Ryan

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Just to clarify the {Sendkeys:<command>} feature will not be there in the next release but you should be able to use {ALT}{ENTER} properly. :)

Regards,

Hubert Mireault