Terminal / Appearance

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

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:

Show session tabs

This option enables or disables the session tabs.

Show Command window

Show button bar on

By checking or unchecking this option, you can display or hide the button bar. 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

Enable font smoothing

Check this box to use enable font smoothing which will smooth edges of screen fonts and may improve readability on some displays. Depending on your platform, you may need to enable font smoothing at the system display level.

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.

Command window history

Enter the number of recently used Command window commands that you want SecureCRT to remember. In your Command window, you can cycle through these commands using your UP and DOWN arrow keys.

Note: To disable the Command window history, enter a zero (0) in this entry box.

Hex view buffer

Enter the number of lines of session data to be displayed in hexadecimal when Hex View is selected from the SecureCRT File menu.

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