USB FTDI serial issues

[SiccoDwars]

I use Windows10 and Icebreaker. Two annoying issues:

1. I have many more FTDI USB serial ports plugged in normally. However, Icestudio only wants to download when I physically unplug every USB FTDI, except for the one to the Icebreaker. This is annoying as the system under test needs those other ports to work. Can that be fixed?

2. I want to use the second FTDI serial port for uart, putty. That’s prewired on the Icebreaker hardware FT2232 chip. But Icestudio only wants to connect for code download if I change both the serial ports to libusbK. But then I no longer can open the second port as dumb VT100 terminal using e.g. putty on the same PC. Or a host application on that PC. Is there a workaround or fix? Can I maybe use a Python serial terminal instead? How about embedding one in Icestudio, just like Arduino did?