Terminal / Appearance / ANSI Color

This category only appears if VanDyke Software's SecureCRT® 5.0 (or newer) is also installed.

The Terminal/Appearance/ANSI Color category of the Global Options dialog allows you to customize the ANSI colors displayed in your SecureCRT application window.

Remote applications may send ANSI color escape sequences to specify that various portions of that application's display appears in one of 16 colors. Eight of the escape sequences correspond to what are called "normal" colors and the other eight typically correspond to "bold" versions of those colors. It is difficult to classify or label these colors beyond "normal and "bold" because an application may use any of the colors for whatever it wants.

Any application that you connect to with SecureCRT may use any ANSI color escape sequence (and its associated color) for its own purposes. While it is possible to configure SecureCRT globally to display 16 specific colors in response to ANSI color escape sequences, two different applications may specify different escape sequences for similar features. For example, when displaying filenames, one application may use the escape sequence that defaults to blue and another application may use the escape sequence that defaults to cyan.

Note: ANSI colors can be enabled or disabled for a specific session
A session is a set of options that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine in SecureFX. These settings and options are saved under a session name and allow the user to have different preferences for different hosts. from the Terminal/Emulation category of the Session Options dialog. Enabling ANSI colors will override any color scheme
A combination of session settings that specify a variety of colors associated with the terminal window, including foreground and background. defined in the Global Options/Terminal/Appearance/Color Scheme dialog.

Normal colors group

This area displays the colors that are associated with the eight "normal" ANSI color escape sequences.

Bold colors group

This area displays the colors that are associated with the eight "bold" ANSI color escape sequences.

Customizing ANSI Colors

To customize ANSI color selections, click on the color block that you want to change and select a new color from the Color dialog. Pressing the Default button returns the color blocks to their original settings.