Terminal
/ Appearance
The Terminal/Appearance category of the Global Options dialog allows you to configure the appearance of your SecureCRT application window.
Options group
This group includes options that deal with the SecureCRT application window's appearance. To turn off any of these options, clear the associated check box. The available options are as follows:
This option enables or disables the session tabs. This can also be controlled from the Session Tabs option on the View menu
Show chat window
Show button bar
By checking or unchecking this option, you can display or hide the button bar (this can also be controlled from the View menu). This option also allows you to display the button bar either at the bottom of the window or at the top.
Show horizontal scroll bar
Show vertical scroll bar
Use ClearType to smooth edges of screen fonts
Check this box to use ClearType which will smooth edges of screen fonts and may improve readability on some displays. Depending on your platform, you may need to enable ClearType font smoothing at the system display level.
Note: This feature applies only to systems using ClearType fonts.
Window left margin
Enter the left margin of the SecureCRT application window in pixels.
Maximum columns
Enter the maximum columns to be displayed in the SecureCRT application window.
Chat window history
Enter the number of recently used chat window commands that you want SecureCRT to remember. In your chat window, you can cycle through these commands using your UP and DOWN arrow keys.
Note: To disable the chat window history, enter a zero (0) in this entry box.
Status bar group
This group includes options that deal with the status bar. To turn off any of these options, clear the associated check box. The available options are as follows:
Show cursor position
Show window size
Show elapsed time
Never show seconds
This group includes options that deal with accessibility issues.
Use trackable insertion caret
For users with accessibility issues, SecureCRT supports the use of a standard insertion caret. Check this option to enable SecureCRT to work with screen access technology for the blind (e.g., screen reading and screen magnification programs) that track the position of the caret.
Note: Turning on the Use trackable insertion caret option will cause the loss of control over some session A session is a set of options that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine. These settings and options are saved under a session name and allow the user to have different preferences for different hosts. cursor options: the cursor color will always be the inversion of the screen color, and the user will not be able to turn off cursor blinking.