ANSI Color with Xterm and SecureCRT

[Steve Phillips]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Mike Vanecek wrote:

>
> I already own SecureCRT but may be forced to look at other options such as
> Anzio if I cannot find a workaround.
>
> Surely some method exists to tell the current xterm terminal session to

I think you are missing some key issues, this is _NOT_ an xterm session, 
this is simply an emulation of an xterm session - this means that the way 
the keyboard and display is handled is as per an xterm session, if you 
press the "up" arrow then xyz string will be sent to the tty and the tty 
will know how to interpret this. When a graphic depicting a corner of a 
box is sent to your tty then your session will know how to display this on 
your screen.

using systems such as setterm will allow you to change foreground and 
background colours but what you are after is a way to override the ansi 
sequences for certain screen attributes (foreground and background), this 
is able to be setup by the xterm application, but you are not running the 
application, you are running a seperate app that does not have these 
facilities.

> change the foreground and background. Many applications have that capability.
> What would I need to put in a script that would send the appropriate codes to
> change the default fg and bg colors?

Yes, many applications have this ability, if you set the codes up in the 
application and they honor colour changes on ansi compliant terminals then 
you will have your new colours. If you are looking for an application that 
allows you to override certain aspects of teh display then either write to 
vandyke and ask them to add this feature in or find a new application. 
SecureCRT does not offer this functionality

You may be interested to know that PuTTY _does_ offer this however under 
the "colour" options.

-- 
Steve.