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Making SuSE yast2 (ncurses mode) look nice in PuTTY

Fri, 2005-11-18 01:00 — christianmlong

Setup for proper use of PuTTY with ncurses (blue) terminal applications, such as SuSE yast and other Linux ncurses applications.

This setup can eliminate problems such as seeing letters instead of line-drawing characters (qqqqqqqqqqq), and seeing black background for blank areas of the ncurses application instead of the blue screen.

Set up a session in PuTTY
In PuTTY Configuration for that session, make the following changes

Terminal > Use background color to erase screen
Terminal > Keyboard > The Function keys and keypad: Linux
Window > Display scrollbar: deselect
Window > Translation > Received data assumed to be in whic character set: UTF-8
Window > Translation > Adjust how PuTTY displays line drawing characters: Unicode mode
Connection > Terminal-type string: linux

After making changes, make sure you Save the session.

Note: these changes were required under PuTTY 0.53. Under PuTTY 0.58, these options still exist, but some may not be necessary.

UPDATE

If you're getting boxes instead of line-drawing characters in PuTTY, the first thing to check is that you have PuTTY set to use a font that contains line-drawing characters. To check (on windows) go to Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. I use Lucida Console for PuTTY. In contrast, Lucida Sans Typewriter does not have line-drawing characters.

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Thu, 2008-10-30 08:21 — christianmlong

Update

If you're getting boxes instead of line-drawing characters in PuTTY, the first thing to check is that you have PuTTY set to use a font that contains line-drawing characters. To check (on windows) go to Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. I use Lucida Console for PuTTY. In contrast, Lucida Sans Typewriter does not haver line-drawing characters.