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Section 3.1: The Session panel

The Session configuration panel contains the basic options you need to specify in order to open a session at all, and also allows you to save your settings to be reloaded later.

3.1.1 The host name section

The top box on the Session panel, labelled "Specify your connection by host name", contains the details that need to be filled in before PuTTY can open a session at all.

3.1.2 Loading and storing saved sessions

The next part of the Session configuration panel allows you to save your preferred PuTTY options so they will appear automatically the next time you start PuTTY. It also allows you to create saved sessions, which contain a full set of configuration options plus a host name and protocol. A saved session contains all the information PuTTY needs to start exactly the session you want.

Each saved session is independent of the Default Settings configuration. If you change your preferences and update Default Settings, you must also update every saved session separately.

3.1.3 "Close Window on Exit"

Finally in the Session panel, there is an option labelled "Close Window on Exit". This controls whether the PuTTY session window disappears as soon as the session inside it terminates. If you are likely to want to copy and paste text out of the session after it has terminated, you should arrange this option to be off.

"Close Window On Exit" has three settings. "Always" means always close the window on exit; "Never" means never close on exit (always leave the window open). The third setting, and the default one, is "Only on clean exit". In this mode, a session which terminates normally will cause its window to close, but one which is aborted unexpectedly by network trouble or a confusing message from the server will leave the window up.

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