<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>simontatham</span></a></span> It's been a looong time since I used <a href="/tags/putty/" rel="tag">#putty</a> (I ran it in a <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">#Wine</a> "bottle", these came from <a href="/tags/flatpak/" rel="tag">#flatpak</a>, I'm using Debian 13 <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a>). Thanks for all your efforts!</p><p>To my mind, 98% of the time, people would use putty to log into a <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> box/VPS, like say a <a href="/tags/raspberrypi/" rel="tag">#RaspberryPi</a> (Raspberry Pi OS, is <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> Trixie 13-based). This would be a sensible default assumption, **demographically**.</p><p>It took a good 2 hours of struggling, just to get 256 colors to work in Putty! (<a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#Python</a>'s textualize library seriously expects 256, or *it can crash* when the Theme is changed). Please let the defaults be sane, so there's no struggle for 256 colors! Please alleviate my nerd rage - I beseech you!</p><p>1) Sane TERM env var:<br>Connection -> Data -> Terminal details -> Terminal-type string -> "putty-256color"</p><p>2) Sane default font: <br>Window -> Appearance -> Font settings -> "Change" button -> adwaita mono 12</p><p>3) Sane bolding of text:<br>Window -> Colors -> General options for color usage -> Indicate bolded text by changing: The font</p><p>4) Sane (Linux-terminal-style) Ctrl + Shift + {C,V} (for copy and paste):<br>Window -> Selection -> Assign copy/paste actions to clipboard -> Ctrl + Shift + (C,V}: System Clipboard</p>
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