ANSI Color with Xterm and SecureCRT

[Steve Phillips]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote:

> On Sunday 08 August 2004 13:41, Mike Vanecek wrote:
>> I am using SecureCRT 4.1.17 to ssh2 into a RH 9 system. SecureCRT is
>> configured to connect using xterm terminal emulation with ansi color. The
>> default color selection is fg=white and bg=black. I would like to reverse
>> it to have black on white as the system default. I know about using
>> geometry when starting an xterm session in a local session with GNOME.
>> However, I am starting the session via ssh and SecureCRT and do not have
>> the option to use geometry (at least not that I can find). How can I tell
>> the running xterm session to change its fg/bg colors?

Under the "emulation" section you need to ensure that the ansi colour 
option is ticked, if you do this then it will override the appearence 
options to set the foreground and background. (I have mine set to 
monochrome under the appearence options). Setting the emulation to xterm 
is ok, but you may find setting it to "Linux" is better unless you connect 
to other systems that are not linux based (linux will emulate the linux 
console and so you will probably find that things work a little better)

> You may do better with PUTTY which comes for free.

PuTTY is very good but if they have purchased SecureCRT then they may find 
that it has more advanced features (passthrough printing etc) that PuTTY 
doesnt do.

-- 
Steve.