Ever been to a coffee shop and got worried about hopping on their public wifi network to check your email? If not, you should have been, and you should presently be concerned about wifi security anywhere you go — a topic we have covered here many times.
The other day I showed you how to configure the look and feel of Putty for improved usability and performance. As I was doing some digging, I discovered two tools which extend the awesomeness of Putty.
First is Putty Connection Manager, which takes control and allows you to manage multiple Putty sessions from one, convenient tabbed interface. Did I mention that I love tabbed interfaces?
Second, there is Putty Tray, which seems to be a customized version someone made that in and of itself improves the Putty interface, while enabling you to minimize it to the Windows System Tray.
Not sure about you, but I use Putty perhaps more than any other application on my Windows PC’s. Putty is a powerful, fast, free application which can be used to connect you quickly and securely to your Linux/Unix environment.
A person named “dag” from the Field Commander Wieers blog has provided an excellent article on configuring Putty for optimal usability and performance called “Improving Putty Settings on Windows“. After walking through the steps listed in the article, I fired up Putty and was amazed by the improved text rendering, colors, and more.
A brief summary of settings gleaned from the article:
Category: Session
Connection type: SSHCategory: Window
Lines of scrollback: 20000Category: Window > Appearance
Font: Lucida Console, 9-point
Font quality: ClearType
Gap between text and window edge: 3Category: Window > Translation
Character set: UTF-8
Handling of line drawing characters: UnicodeCategory: Window > Selection
Action of mouse buttons: xterm (Right extends, Middle pastes)
Paste to clipboard in RTF as well as plain text: enabledCategory: Window > Colours
ANSI Blue: Red:74 Green:74 Blue:255
ANSI Blue Bold: Red:140: Green:140 Blue:255Category: Connection
Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off): 25Category: Connection > SSH > X11
Enable X11 forwarding: enabled
Read the whole article here.