How can I make PuTTY terminal look better?

Changing Font Color in PuTTy

1. Hold the Windows key and press S to open the search function.
2. Go to the Colors settings under the Window list on the left side.
3. Choose the color you want or you can make any custom color by adjusting the colors on the right side.

How do you change the background color in PuTTY?

Right click on the top border of putty console and choose “Change Settings…” 2- You will get below settings window. Now click on Colours tab from left side pane and now we need to select an option for which we must change the color.

How do you highlight text in PuTTY?

Triple Click/Line Selection If you double-click a word and then drag across other lines of text, PuTTY will begin highlight entire lines starting from the word you first selected.

How do I make PuTTY more readable?

Improving Putty settings on Windows

1. Configure your Putty first, then make entries. This is important advice.
2. Make SSH the default.
3. Increase scrollback buffer.
4. Choose a good font.
5. Use proper character encoding.
6. Linux copy-and-pasting.
7. Change dark colours on a black background.
8. Keeping idle sessions active.

How do I change the cursor color in PuTTY?

Change Putty Cursor Color or Mouse Pointer Color

1. 1- To start this, we will Right click on the top border of putty console and choose “Change Settings…”
2. 2- You will get below settings window.
3. Colours->Cursor Colour->Modify.

How do I paste in telnet?

Telnet or SSH from PC:

1. Highlight the text.
2. Go up to edit and click on copy.
3. Move the cursor to where you want to paste. ( If you are pasting into the telnet window, it will paste at the prompt.)
4. Go up to edit and click on paste.

Can I paste a password in PuTTY?

Press Ctrl+C or right-click the highlighted text and then left-click on Copy in the context menu. Position the cursor in PuTTY where you want to paste the copied text from Windows, then right-click to paste it or press Shift + Insert.

How do I edit PuTTY configuration?

Changing default settings

1. From the Start button, choose the PuTTY application in Program Files/PuTTY.
2. In the PuTTY Configuration window, choose an items from the menu list on the left and change the values on the right.
3. To save these settings, click Session on the top of the left menu.