I'm running Putty on Windows and can't find an option to increase the size of the scrollback buffer . It seems set at about 4 pages of text.
Am I missing something?
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Sign up to join this communityI'm running Putty on Windows and can't find an option to increase the size of the scrollback buffer . It seems set at about 4 pages of text.
Am I missing something?
You can increase the scrollback by selecting the Window options category and changing the Lines of scrollback option.
First load the session, then go to the Window category in the left pane and change Lines of scrollback to say, 20000. Go back to the Session category and save it.
Note: you must load the session for it to save!
Its very simple load your required session and change your desired scroll back value on window option then click on Save button.
I was actually looking to increase the scroll-back buffer, but when starting a session from the windows terminal. For this, you need to change the default settings, like so :
To save your default settings: first set up the settings the way you want them saved. Then come back to the Session panel. Select the ‘Default Settings’ entry in the saved sessions list, with a single click. Then press the ‘Save’ button.