Managing PuTTY Sessions

Create a Session

If you find it troublesome to type the hostname and port number whenever you want to connect to our STU.ipv6.club.tw server, actually you can save these frequently used information in a session so that PuTTY can easily open a session for you.

After typing a hostname (or IP address) and the port number, you may supply a name in the "Saved Sessions" field, and click "Save". This will save the host information in Windows registries ([HKEY_USERS\[HKEY_USERS\) so that PuTTY can retrieve that information quickly in the future.

Open a Session

To open a session, simply double-click the name of a saved session, or click the name and click "Open".

Configuring PuTTY

You may refer to PuTTY User Manual for more information to configure your sessions. Here are some of my favorite:

• Terminal - Keyboard - Control-H
  
• Terminal - Features - Disable application keypad mode
  
• Window - Appearance - Change
  • Font: MingLiU (²Ó©úÅé)
  • Font style: Bold
  • Size: 14
  • Script: Chinese Big5
  
• Window - Behavior - System menu appears on ALT-Space
  
• Window - Translation - Remote character set - UTF-8
  

The Colours Panel

Through the colours panel (Window - Colours), you may change the colors of foreground fonts, background, or cursor colour.

For example, you may change the foreground colour to be yellow, and the cursor colour to be red. Then the text in PuTTY may look like this:

More information about the RGB Color Model can be found on Wikipedia. However, please be aware not to choose a color scheme which is too bright. Looking at a screen with too much brightness may be harmful to your eyes.