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Jan 31, 2010

Putty setting the correct screen layout acessing a Linux Box

One of my favorite file managing applications under linux is midnight commander, since it has a text-mode 2 panel manager it has a clean interface allows managing files and folders in a simple maner.

One of the visually annoying problems that I get is the default setting of putty doesn't draw the vertical and horizontal lines of the mc gui correctly.

To make it all work correctly, you need to change the following configuration settings:

Terminal → Keyboard:

Change the sequences sent by: The Functions keys and Keypad:
Select Linux.

Window → Appearance:

Font settings:
Pick a font that contains the Unicode line drawing characters, such as Andale Mono or Lucida Console. (Unfortunately Vista’s gorgeous new Consolas font does not have those.)

Window → Translation:

Character set translation on received data:
Select UTF-8.
Adjust how PuTTY handles line drawing characters:
Select Use Unicode line drawing code points.

Connection → Data:

Terminal details: Terminal-type string:
Enter “linux”.

Terminal -> Features
check - Disable bidirectional text display

Now line drawing characters should show up as they are supposed to.
This was tested with putty running on vista accessing a Linux Fedora machine.

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