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Modify Theme Dialog Box for VT Terminal Session

How do I get to this dialog box?

  1. Open a terminal session.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.
    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon or Reflection Browser With a session open in Reflection, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click .
    TouchUx Tap the Gear icon and then select Document Settings.

  2. Under Terminal Appearance, select Manage Themes.

  3. Click Modify the currently selected theme file.

Create your own custom theme by modifying and saving an existing theme.

Theme Information

This information is displayed, along with a thumbnail, in the list of themes that appears on the Select a Theme File dialog box.

Setting Description
Title Specify a title for this theme.
Description Describe this theme.

Sounds

Make sure any sound file you want to include is saved in a trusted location. Reflection uses the sound files installed with Windows.

Setting Description
Events Select the event that will trigger a sound.
Sound Click Browse to specify a sound that plays when the selected event occurs. Click Play to hear the sound.

Font

Font Settings

Setting Description
Font Select a font from the drop-down box.
Bold Select to apply bold formatting to the specified font.
Automatically adjust font size to fit window When selected, Reflection adjusts the font to fit the session screen. To specify a particular font size, select Specify font size instead.
Specify font size Specify the point size for fonts.

Preview

Setting Description
Preview box Displays the specified font and text effects.

Cursor Style

Cursor

Setting Description
Shape Specify the shape for the cursor.
Enable cursor blink Select to allow the cursor to blink.

Display Enhancements

These settings control whether display enhancements specified by the host are used by your computer.

Setting Description
Enable blink Select to allow text to blink.
Enable underline Select to allow underlined text.
Enable bold Select to allow bold text.
Inverse video Select to allow inverse video.
Color cursor Select to allow changes to the color of your cursor.

Text Color Mapping

These colors are not available for all terminal types.

Setting Description
Terminal item Click Change to specify foreground and background colors for terminal items. You can specify different colors for different types of fields, such as Normal, Blink, Bold, Underline, and Inverse.

ANSI Color Mapping

These colors are not available for all terminal types.

Setting Description
Terminal graphics color Click Change to replace standard ANSI colors with the specified colors for all terminal session screens.

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