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Menu launcher

Execute the following command:

# menu

to display the Toolkit menu:

Putty configuration

Colors

Recommended color scheme for 'putty' is (all other values can remain as they are by default):

Color to adjust	Red	Green	Blue
Default Foreground	0	0	0
Default Foreground Bold	0	0	160
Default Background	255	255	255
Default Background Bold	192	192	192
ANSI White	223	223	223

Hint: in case the background color is black, the blue color used for some output could be difficult to read. It is possible to switch to an alternate color from the 'Preferences' menu option. This requires the terminal emulator to support 256 colors (xterm).

Line drawing

If the menu does not correctly display line drawing, you can change some parameters in putty.

Putty version 0.71 and above

Set the new parameter "UTF8linedraw=1"

on Linux, add a line in .putty/sessions/yoursession containing this parameter (above)
on Windows, change settings from "Window" → "Translation" pane and check the button "Enable VT100 line drawing even in UTF-8 mode"

You can keep your locale / codepage as UTF-8.

Putty version 0.70 and below

Change the terminal settings: if set to vt100 for example, you will see lowercase characters in place of menu borders.

To correct this, enter the following commands:

# echo $TERMvt100
# TERM=xterm
# export TERM# menu

Notes:

Starting with kit version 1.48, it is possible to disable line drawing (semi-graphics) from the preferences menu
If you’re using putty, you'll maybe have to force the Terminal-type string:

and maybe Remote character set parameter:
If you have issues with some characters that are not displayed correctly, please see this article: Cannot get correct line drawing on Linux/UNIX with Putty

Menu Options

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