PuTTY Settings for Linux

Based on https://web.archive.org/web/20200805110739/http://dag.wiee.rs/blog/content/improving-putty-settings-on-windows

Category: Session

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

Category: Session - Logging

• Session Logging: Printable output
• Log file name: (FULL PATH)/putty-&H-&Y&M&DT&T.log

Category: Terminal - Bell

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

Category: Window

• Columns: 132
• Lines of scrollback: 200000
• 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 (now the default)
• Handling of line drawing characters: Unicode
• Enable VT100 line drawing even in UTF-8 mode

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 - Data

• Auto-login username: appropriate default if different from the local user

Category: Connection - SSH - Auth

• Display pre-authentication banner: unchecked
• Allow agent forwarding: checked

Category: Connection - SSH - X11

• Enable X11 forwarding: enabled