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Can you disable the Ctrl-S (XOFF) keystroke in Putty?

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Mar 15, 202621719 views
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Problem

I do a lot of ssh-ing, and periodically I hit Ctrl+S, which naturally sends an , and causes all kinds of problems (not to mention it takes a while for me to figure out what happened, then another while to remember that I need to press Ctrl+Q to recover. I would much rather instruct Putty to never eā€¦

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XOFF

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Fix for: Can you disable the Ctrl-S (XOFF) keystroke in Putty?

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Don't know about Putty, but you can use: on remote host, to disable START/STOP signals.

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