PuTTY - Revision history

Darth l33t: /* Recommended settings */ set ttype to "putty"

2026-06-05T14:30:02Z

‎Recommended settings: set ttype to "putty"

Jugglingotaku: added link to page

2024-11-17T00:12:29Z

added link to page

Darth l33t: /* Recommended settings */ linux ttype is bad, it breaks curses graphics and doesn't seem to make anything better

2022-12-25T19:42:31Z

‎Recommended settings: linux ttype is bad, it breaks curses graphics and doesn't seem to make anything better

Darth l33t: /* Recommended settings */ SSH, auto-login

2022-11-05T14:56:16Z

‎Recommended settings: SSH, auto-login

Andrio Celos: Add a note about setting DGLAUTH to auto-login

2022-11-05T02:39:50Z

Add a note about setting DGLAUTH to auto-login

Andrio Celos: Specify which category each setting can be found in

2022-11-05T02:39:00Z

Specify which category each setting can be found in

Nabru: PuTTY color themes.

2021-12-04T13:25:40Z

PuTTY color themes.

Darth l33t: auto-login

2021-08-08T21:25:29Z

auto-login

Infinigon: copyediting, also moving in some hints in from the Public Server page

2021-01-10T15:14:42Z

copyediting, also moving in some hints in from the Public Server page

Paxed: link to telnet

2010-09-27T13:41:54Z

link to telnet

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 When connecting to a server using [[dgamelaunch]], you may become disconnected if you accidentally resize the window to have a different width or height in onscreen characters. To prevent this from happening, choose between ''Change the size of the font'' and ''Forbid resizing completely'' under Window. You can also set the starting window size here.
-<!--By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>, which breaks a lot of things. It's best to change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>linux</tt> (under Connection/Data).
+By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>. Under Connection/Data, you can change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>putty</tt>, which may offer better compatibility with certain character sets.
--->
 By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you change the mouse button actions from Compromise to Windows (under Window/Selection) to disable this. Remember that, unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:12, 17 November 2024
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−	'''PuTTY''' is a free implementation of [[telnet]], ssh and terminal emulation by Simon Tatham. It is the preferred way to play NetHack on a [[public server]] on Windows, as it is much more versatile and standards-compliant than Microsoft's telnet.exe that comes with Windows.	+	'''PuTTY''' is a free implementation of [[telnet]], [[ssh]] and terminal emulation by Simon Tatham. It is the preferred way to play NetHack on a [[public server]] on Windows, as it is much more versatile and standards-compliant than Microsoft's telnet.exe that comes with Windows.

	PuTTY can be downloaded from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ the PuTTY homepage].		PuTTY can be downloaded from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ the PuTTY homepage].

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 When connecting to a server using [[dgamelaunch]], you may become disconnected if you accidentally resize the window to have a different width or height in onscreen characters. To prevent this from happening, choose between ''Change the size of the font'' and ''Forbid resizing completely'' under Window. You can also set the starting window size here.
-By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>, which breaks a lot of things. It's best to change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>linux</tt> (under Connection/Data).
+<!--By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>, which breaks a lot of things. It's best to change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>linux</tt> (under Connection/Data).
+-->
 By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you change the mouse button actions from Compromise to Windows (under Window/Selection) to disable this. Remember that, unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.

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 ==Recommended settings==
 To make [[IBMgraphics]] work with PuTTY, you need to set Remote Character Set (under Window/Translation) to <tt>CP437</tt>
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 When using [[number_pad]], it may be necessary to disable application keypad mode (under Terminal/Features).
-When connecting to a server using [[Dgamelaunch]], you may become disconnected if you accidentally resize the window to have a different width or height in onscreen characters. To prevent this from happening, choose between ''Change the size of the font'' and ''Forbid resizing completely'' under Window. You can also set the starting window size here.
+When connecting to a server using [[dgamelaunch]], you may become disconnected if you accidentally resize the window to have a different width or height in onscreen characters. To prevent this from happening, choose between ''Change the size of the font'' and ''Forbid resizing completely'' under Window. You can also set the starting window size here.
 By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>, which breaks a lot of things. It's best to change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>linux</tt> (under Connection/Data).
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 By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you change the mouse button actions from Compromise to Windows (under Window/Selection) to disable this. Remember that, unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.
-On some public servers when connecting by Telnet, you can log in automatically by configuring the auto-login username (under Connection/Data) in the format <tt>username:password</tt>. SSH public servers generally require a specific username e.g. <tt>nethack</tt> at the authentication layer, and then you log into your personal account within the application itself, but configuring that username in auto-login still saves a step when connecting. Note that Telnet traffic isn't encrypted, so use a unique password. When using SSH, it is possible to automatically log in by setting the environment variable <tt>DGLAUTH</tt> using the same format (under Connection/Data).
+On some public servers running dgamelaunch, you can [[Dgamelaunch#PuTTY|configure PuTTY to log in automatically]]. Servers running other software may have their own auto-login methods.
 ==Color themes==

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 By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you change the mouse button actions from Compromise to Windows (under Window/Selection) to disable this. Remember that, unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.
-On some public servers when connecting by Telnet, you can log in automatically by configuring the auto-login username (under Connection/Data) in the format <tt>username:password</tt>. SSH public servers generally require a specific username e.g. <tt>nethack</tt> at the authentication layer, and then you log into your personal account within the application itself, but configuring that username in auto-login still saves a step when connecting. Note that Telnet traffic isn't encrypted, so use a unique password.
+On some public servers when connecting by Telnet, you can log in automatically by configuring the auto-login username (under Connection/Data) in the format <tt>username:password</tt>. SSH public servers generally require a specific username e.g. <tt>nethack</tt> at the authentication layer, and then you log into your personal account within the application itself, but configuring that username in auto-login still saves a step when connecting. Note that Telnet traffic isn't encrypted, so use a unique password. When using SSH, it is possible to automatically log in by setting the environment variable <tt>DGLAUTH</tt> using the same format (under Connection/Data).
 ==Color themes==

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 ==Recommended settings==
-To make [[IBMgraphics]] work with PuTTY, you need to set <tt>Window/Translation/Character Set</tt> to <tt>CP437</tt>
+To make [[IBMgraphics]] work with PuTTY, you need to set Remote Character Set (under Window/Translation) to <tt>CP437</tt>
-To make PuTTY looks exactly like the Windows terminal window, set <tt>Window/Appearance/Font</tt> to <tt>Terminal</tt>
+To make PuTTY looks exactly like the Windows terminal window, set the Font (under Window/Appearance) to <tt>Terminal</tt>
-Make sure "auto-wrap mode" is switched off or you terminal might get spammed with text artifacts.
+Make sure auto-wrap mode (under Terminal) is switched off or you terminal might get spammed with text artifacts.
-When connecting to server using [[Dgamelaunch]], you may become disconnected if you accidentally resize Putty window to have different width or height in onscreen characters. To prevent this from happening, choose between ''Change the size of the font'' and ''Forbid resizing completely'' in Window settings. You can also set the starting window size here.
+When using [[number_pad]], it may be necessary to disable application keypad mode (under Terminal/Features).
-By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>, which breaks a lot of things. It's best to change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>linux</tt>.
+When connecting to a server using [[Dgamelaunch]], you may become disconnected if you accidentally resize the window to have a different width or height in onscreen characters. To prevent this from happening, choose between ''Change the size of the font'' and ''Forbid resizing completely'' under Window. You can also set the starting window size here.
-By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you go to Window -> Selection and change the selection from "Compromise" to "Windows" to disable this. Remember that, unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.
+By default, PuTTY sets its terminal-type string as <tt>xterm</tt>, which breaks a lot of things. It's best to change its advertised terminal-type to <tt>linux</tt> (under Connection/Data).
-On some public servers when connecting by Telnet, you can log in automatically by configuring the auto-login username under <tt>Connection/Data</tt> in the format <tt>username:password</tt>. SSH public servers generally require a specific username e.g. <tt>nethack</tt> at the authentication layer, and then you log into your personal account within the application itself, but configuring that username in auto-login still saves a step when connecting. Note that Telnet traffic isn't encrypted, so use a unique password.
+By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you change the mouse button actions from Compromise to Windows (under Window/Selection) to disable this. Remember that, unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.
 ==Color themes==
-Colors can be configured to your preference by going to the Window -> Color and editing the RGB codes of each color. To avoid the work, many color schemes can be found [https://github.com/AlexAkulov/putty-color-themes here]; just follow the instructions in the <tt>README</tt> file.
+Colors can be configured to your preference by going to Window/Color and editing the RGB codes of each color. To avoid the work, many color schemes can be found [https://github.com/AlexAkulov/putty-color-themes here]; just follow the instructions in the <tt>README</tt> file.
 ==NetHack mode==
-PuTTY has a special mode for playing NetHack<ref>http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.76/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-nethack</ref>. You can enable it by selecting ‘NetHack’ in the ‘Initial state of numeric keypad’ control.
+PuTTY has a special mode for playing NetHack<ref>http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.76/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-nethack</ref>. You can enable it by selecting ‘NetHack’ in the ‘Initial state of numeric keypad’ control (under Terminal/Keyboard).
 In this mode, the numeric keypad keys 1-9 generate the NetHack movement commands (<tt>hjklyubn</tt>). The 5 key generates the . command (do nothing).

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 '''PuTTY''' is a free implementation of [[telnet]], ssh and terminal emulation by Simon Tatham.  It is the preferred way to play NetHack on a [[public server]] on Windows, as it is much more versatile and standards-compliant than Microsoft's telnet.exe that comes with Windows.
-PuTTY can be downloaded from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY homepage].
+PuTTY can be downloaded from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ the PuTTY homepage].
 ==Recommended settings==
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 To make [[IBMgraphics]] work with PuTTY, you need to set <tt>Window/Translation/Character Set</tt> to <tt>CP437</tt>
-To make PuTTY looks exactly like the Windows terminal window, set <tt>Windows/Appearance/Font</tt> to <tt>Terminal</tt>
+To make PuTTY looks exactly like the Windows terminal window, set <tt>Window/Appearance/Font</tt> to <tt>Terminal</tt>
 Make sure "auto-wrap mode" is switched off or you terminal might get spammed with text artifacts.
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 By default, right-click pastes in PuTTY. This can easily lose your game if you accidentally right-click a window when you have a long piece of text on the clipboard. It's recommended that you go to Window -> Selection and change the selection from "Compromise" to "Windows" to disable this. Remember that unless you save your session settings, you have to set this option again every time you play.
 ==NetHack mode==
-(from [http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-nethack PuTTY documentation])
+PuTTY has a special mode for playing NetHack<ref>http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.76/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-nethack</ref>. You can enable it by selecting ‘NetHack’ in the ‘Initial state of numeric keypad’ control.
 In this mode, the numeric keypad keys 1-9 generate the NetHack movement commands (hjklyubn). The 5 key generates the . command (do nothing).
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 In addition, pressing Shift or Ctrl with the keypad keys generate the Shift- or Ctrl-keys you would expect (e.g. keypad-7 generates ‘y’, so Shift-keypad-7 generates ‘Y’ and Ctrl-keypad-7 generates Ctrl-Y); these commands tell NetHack to keep moving you in the same direction until you encounter something interesting.
-For some reason, this feature only works properly when Num Lock is on. We don't know why.
+For some reason, this feature only works properly when Num Lock is on.
 [[Category:Utilities]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 13:41, 27 September 2010
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−	'''PuTTY''' is a free implementation of telnet, ssh and terminal emulation by Simon Tatham. It seems to be the preferred way to play NetHack on a [[public server]] on Windows, as it is much more versatile and standards-compliant than Microsoft's telnet.exe that comes with Windows.	+	'''PuTTY''' is a free implementation of [[telnet]], ssh and terminal emulation by Simon Tatham. It seems to be the preferred way to play NetHack on a [[public server]] on Windows, as it is much more versatile and standards-compliant than Microsoft's telnet.exe that comes with Windows.

	PuTTY can be downloaded from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY homepage]		PuTTY can be downloaded from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY homepage]