How to change PuTTY's appearance
Posted by TurnKey Admin on 30 March 2016 11:25 AM
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If you're going to be using PuTTY a lot, you'll probably want to customize its appearance to what you like best. PuTTY has a number of settings that allow you to do this 1) Once you have PuTTY open, load a session from the menu 2) Then, go to Appearance The first settings here allow you to adjust the cursor's appearance 3) The default is Block, but you can change it to one of the other two, if you want. We'll pick Vertical line 4) Click this checkbox to make the cursor blink 5) Now, for the Font settings 6) Click Change... 7) Select a new font from the list. Only monospaced fonts will show up; these are fonts whose characters are all the same width 8) Change its style, or just leave it set to Regular 9) Adjust the size to something a bit bigger 10) Then, click OK Notice... the font name and size listed here has changed 11) Mark this checkbox to hide the mouse pointer when typing 12) Last on this page, you can adjust the appearance of the window border. Use this value to control the size of the Gap between text and window edge 13) To display a sunken edge border, click this checkbox 14) Now, go to Colours Let's change the background and foreground colors 15) Hit Modify 16) Choose a Basic color, or pick a custom color using the tool at right. Let's use white 17) Click OK 18) Now, for the Foreground color 19) We'll pick Black for this Feel free to change any other colors you want 20) Now, return to the Session page 21) Save our changes to the session 22) Then, press Open You should notice that this looks quite a bit different than it does with the default settings That cursor color is a little bright on a white background. You can change it with the Colours settings, where we just were 23) Log in 24) Test out a command That's it! You now know how to change PuTTY's appearance | |
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