My favorite settings for terminal emulators

If only I could create a single config file that worked with every terminal app in every OS ... :-( Until then, these are reminders about what I like in order to prevent the majority of annoyances

Fonts

Courier New Bold 16 Nimbus Mono PS Bold 16

Misc

Enable OpenSSH agent forwarding Scroll on keystroke NOT on output Visual bell Encoding: UTF-8 Emulation: xterm-256color Scrollback buffer: unlimited Color Scheme: ANSI Color Palette: Dark Pastel Foreground: gray Background: black For bold, use Foreground: white Paste: via middle mouse button

Logging

per-session file rotate daily, include YYMMDD in filename start on connect