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Putty settings for optimal session #shell
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Putty settings summary.

The putty settings below were taken from: http://dag.wiee.rs/blog/content/improving-putty-settings-on-windows

Category: Session

  • Connection type: SSH
  • Close window on exit: Never

Category: Terminal > Bell

  • Action to happen when a bell occurs: Visual bell (flash window)
  • Taskbar/caption indication: Flashing

Category: Window

  • Lines of scrollback: 20000
  • Reset scrollback on keypress: Checked
  • Reset scrollback on display activity: Unchecked

Category: Window > Appearance

  • Font: Lucida Console, 9-point
  • Font quality: ClearType
  • Gap between text and window edge: 3

Category: Window > Translation

  • Character set: UTF-8
  • Handling of line drawing characters: Unicode

Category: Window > Selection

  • Action of mouse buttons: xterm (Right extends, Middle pastes)
  • Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text: enabled

Category: Window > Colours

  • ANSI Blue: Red:74 Green:74 Blue:255
  • ANSI Blue Bold: Red:140: Green:140 Blue:255

Category: Connection

  • Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off): 25

Category: Connection > SSH > X11

  • Enable X11 forwarding: enabled
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