How do you color code in PuTTY?

How do you color code in PuTTY?

Click on the System menu at the upper left corner of the PuTTY window.

1. Select Change Settings > Window > Colours.
2. In the box that says “Select a colour to adjust”, choose ANSI Blue and click the Modify Button.
3. Slide the black arrow on the right up until you see a lighter shade of blue that you like.
4. Click OK.

What is the best font for PuTTY?

Choose a good font. The newer Putty binaries are able to make use of ClearType which drastically improves the font quality compared to Antialiased. Go to Category: Window > Appearance, choose ClearType and a nice font. I prefer Lucida Console, 9-point.

What does green mean in PuTTY?

Thanks U Hi, Did a quick google and found this: Executable files: Green * Normal file : Normal * Directory: Blue * Symbolic link : Cyan * Pipe: Yellow * Socket: Magenta * Block device driver: Bold yellow foreground, with black background * Character device driver: Bold yellow foreground, with black background * …

How do I permanently change PuTTY color?

1. Open PuTTY.
2. Under Saved Sessions, click on a saved session.
3. Click Load.
4. Click on Window->Colours.
5. Under General options for colour usage, click the top two check boxes: Allow terminal…
6. Go back to Session.
7. Click Save.
8. Click Open.

How do I navigate in putty?

Just type “pwd” and hit enter. cd: Now, you are at a location and you want to navigate to another. Type “cd /location” and you will reach that location. It stands for “change directory”.

How do I permanently save putty color?

Saving settings

1. If you do not save the settings, you always have to repeat the changes when starting Putty. To save the settings, go to Session (1) in the Category list.
2. Make the settings (2).
3. Enter the desired name of the settings in Saved Sessions (3).
4. Click Save (4) to save the settings.

How do I permanently set Scrollback lines in PuTTY?

Here’s how to do it:

1. In the PuTTY configuration window, select Window in the category tree on the left.
2. Change the Lines of scrollback to whatever value you wish.
3. If you’d like to make the new setting the default, select Session in the category tree, in the Saved Sessions window, type Default Settings, and click Save.

How do you zoom in on PuTTY?

How to change font size in PuTTY permanently for all future sessions

1. Open PuTTY. In PuTTY Configuration window, select Window > Appearance > Font settings > Change.
2. Inside Font dialog, select the appropriate font, font style and font size to suit your needs.
3. Now switch back to Session section in the left hand side.

Why is my directory green?

Black text with green background indicates that a directory is writable by others apart from the owning user and group, and has the sticky bit set ( o+w, +t ).

How do I increase the number of scrollback lines in putty?

Increase PuTTY Lines of Scrollback Open your PuTTY configuration. Select Window and you will see the option to control the PuTTY windows on the right panel. To increase the scrollback lines, you will need to increase the field of Lines of scrollback. In this example, i have increased to 5000 lines.

How to increase scrollback buffer in putty session?

Changing it to SSH will probably save you some time when you start Putty out-of-the-blue. For this go to Category: Session and select SSH. Increase scrollback buffer. By default Putty buffers 200 lines of output, which is too little in lots of circumstances.

What is the use of the scrollbar in the uputty?

PuTTY keeps track of text that has scrolled up off the top of the terminal. So if something appears on the screen that you want to read, but it scrolls too fast and it’s gone by the time you try to look for it, you can use the scrollbar on the right side of the window to look back up the session history and find it again.

How can I improve the look of the text in putty?

Use proper character encoding. Nowadays all Linux systems are able to use Unicode (UTF-8) so to make sure that the output in Putty (especially everything non-ascii) looks fine, go to Category: Window > Translation and change the character set to UTF-8, make sure that also the line drawing characters use Unicode as well. Linux copy-and-pasting.