“ xterm-256color” seems to work fine for now. I experimented with it as well, and I couldn’t get Ctrl-arrow keys working in tmux with any kind of tricks. One note about using “ putty-256color” terminal type in PuTTY. That matches “ xterm-256color“, as well as other useful terminal types like “ screen-256color” and “ tmux-256color” (one of those is usually present while inside screen/tmux), and provides the colored prompt style shown above. Xterm-color |*-256color) color_prompt=yes You can change it to this, just like Debian buster already has it: # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we 'want' color) (Plus some code that actually set the prompt based on the color_prompt value.) Note that it only checks the terminal type “ xterm-color“, and that is not enough to support 256 colors in the terminal. bashrc contained this code: # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we 'want' color) It didn’t require any changes, but in earlier Debian versions. The Linux host in the screenshots above is Debian 10 buster. Gap between text and window edge from 1 to 3 (just a minor touch).Indicate bolded text from colour to font.

Font from Courier New to Consolas (in addition to the different typeface it also brought the hyphenation symbol as shown above).Terminal type from xterm to xterm-256color.And now, in 2019, I realized that there really are some settings in PuTTY that can make a difference!īash prompt and the colors looked like this:Īfter some adjustments, here they are now: I’ve “always” used PuTTY as my SSH client on Windows.

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