5.1.1 Color mapping

You can customize the color of your screen and the appearance of different host attributes in the terminal window. For each item, you can select a color for the foreground and the background colors for all supported host connections. Colors are specified using the color grid or by entering the Hex code format.

There are many web sites that list available Hex colors, for an example see w3schools.com HTML Color Picker

You may see different options depending on the type of host connection.

Options specific to UTS hosts:

  • Use color information from the host - To use the colors specified here rather than any colors specified by the host, clear this option.

  • Enable blink - To disable blinking, clear this option.

  • Select attribute to edit - In UTS emulation, colors are set directly by the host. You can specify colors for text associated with specific screen display options. Including the following and available combinations:

    Plain, Underline(UND), Strikethru (STK), Left Column Separator (LCS), Control Page, and Status Line (OIA).

  • Video intensity - The video intensities, Blink, Dim, Protected, and Reverse are combined with the attributes to create additional combinations. For example, you could map foreground or background colors to all cells with Dim + Blink + Underline or Reverse + Protected + Strikethru + Underline.

    When you select a video intensity (or combination of intensities), those intensities are combined with the value of the attribute drop down list to form a single color mapping.

Options specific to VT and T27 hosts:

  • Enable blink - To disable blinking, clear this option.

  • Enable bold - Displays text set with bold attributes as bold text in the terminal window. To display bold characters as plain text, clear this option.

  • Enable underline - Displays text with underline.

  • Inverse video (VT-only) - This option reverses the foreground and background colors when the VT host sends an inverse video escape sequence. If this option is not enabled, the inverse video sequences sent from the host are ignored.

To customize colors for all host types:

  1. From the left navigation panel, click Display.

  2. Under Color Mappings, click the background color field to open the color grid. From the color grid, select the color you want to use as the host background color. Alternatively, type the Hex color number for the color you want to use.

  3. From the drop down list, select the default host color you want to change. For example, if you select host pink from the drop down list and then change the foreground color to red, whenever you encounter pink text it will appear as red.

  4. Open the color grid for the Foreground to choose a color to map the new color for the text or type the Hex code you want to use. Select Background to map the new color to the background field.

  5. Click Save to close the Display panel and resume configuring your host connection.

Restore defaults clears any changes you made and resets the colors to the default host settings.