PuTTY-WST

August 19, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

A fork of Simon Tatham's SSH client PuTTY for use with WinSSHTerm 2.41.0 or higher.

Changes

Scroll Demonstration

  • Scroll behaviour similar to Windows Terminal (mouse wheel and trackpad)
  • Change font size with CTRL+MOUSEWHEEL
  • Prevent weird terminal behaviour on Windows systems that support Modern Standby (see issue)
  • Paste from clipboard is now executed on the main thread (originally a background thread is used which might cause a race condition)

How to build PuTTY-WST

Sample Setup

  • Windows 10 or higher
  • Visual Studio (C++ Development)
  • CMake

Build

  • Download and extract the source zip file
  • Run cmake -A x64 . if you want a x64 build or run cmake -A arm64 . for a arm64 build
  • Start the build with cmake --build . --config Release
  • A new sub-directory Release will be created that contains the binaries