View Menu

SecureCRT


This topic lists the options available on the View menu.

Toggles the menu bar on and off. The menu bar can also be toggled on and off from the System menu.

Toggles the toolbar on and off.

Toggles the 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. tabs on and off. Tabs can also be enabled using the Show session tabs option on the Global Options/Terminal/Appearance dialog.

Toggles the chat window on and off.

The SecureCRT chat window provides an interface to the remote command line that is unaffected by concurrent output to the terminal A device usually consisting of a keyboard, a display unit such as a cathode ray tube, and a serial port used for entering and sending data to a computer and displaying any data received from the computer. Terminals are usually connected to a computer with a serial line or some other type of connection. There are many terminal types including VT100, VT102, VT220, and others. screen. The chat window is a great interface to use when communicating in the environment of a chat room. In addition, the chat window is useful for issuing subsequent commands. While waiting for the output of a previous command to complete, you can prepare the next command by typing it into the chat window. The contents of the chat window are sent to the command line as soon as the ENTER key is pressed in the chat window.

You can prepare multiple lines in the chat window with CTRL+ENTER.

SecureCRT will remember the number of recently used chat window commands that are specified in the Chat window history option of the Global Options/Terminal/Appearance dialog. You can cycle through these commands using your UP and DOWN arrow keys. Entering a 0 for the Chat window history will turn off this feature.

If you want to send commands to all your open tabbed sessions at once, right-click in the chat window and select the Send Chat to All Tabs option. Commands will be sent to all your tabbed sessions as long as this option is enabled,

Toggles the connect bar on and off.

Toggles the status bar on and off.

Toggles the button bar on and off.

Allows you to select from the available Windows display themes.

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Toggles the active window transparency between fully opaque and the transparency value set in the Terminal/Appearance/Advanced category of the Global Options dialog.

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Toggles the horizontal scroll bar on and off. Turning off the scroll bar does not turn off scrolling.

Toggles the vertical scroll bar on and off. Turning off the scroll bar does not turn off scrolling.

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Keeps the session window in front or "on top" of other windows on your screen.

Enlarges the session window to full screen size. The ALT+ENTER key combination returns the window to its standard size.