Friday, July 23, 2010

How to change font size in PuTTY

PuTTY is one of the most known telnet/SSH clients for the MS Windows environment.

I use it on a daily basis for connecting, via the SSH protocol, to the compute clusters I use for my job, from my (unfortunately) MS Windows desktop computer.

One trivial but highly frequent configuration issue happening when installing PuTTY on a new machine consists in how to setup the wanted font size for your SSH terminal, such that you do not get blind trying to read what's on your remote machine screen.

Here there are the simple instructions for such configuration:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/docs/faq/q3.html