PuTTY colour scheme from command line

Question

I have putty set up to use the monokai colour scheme via a .reg file found here

This works when creating new SSH sessions using the GUI. However, sometimes I like to start PuTTY from the command line instead:

C:\putty.exe -ssh user@ip -pw password

When I try to connect using that method the colour scheme no longer loads and defaults to the base PuTTY colour scheme, which I find fairly unusable

Whats the correct way to set the PuTTY colour scheme to monokai, so that it will load correctly regardless of which method is used?

Answer 1

You cannot set color scheme from command-line.

But you can save your preferred color scheme to the "Default Settings" in PuTTY. It will then be picked up for the ad-hoc sessions invoked from a command-line.

• Configure your preferred defaults on the PuTTY configuration window
  (or just load the imported "monokai" session);
• Go to "Session" page;
• Select "Default Settings";
• Press "Save"