Secure Global Desktop Administration Guide > Applications, documents and hosts > Terminal emulator color maps
SCO Console (ANSI) and VT420 terminals support 16 colors. The Secure Global Desktop terminal emulator uses a color map to determine how these colors are presented in an emulator session.
Note Wyse 60 terminals are monochrome. You can only switch the background and foreground colors (black and white) using the color map. However, you can map character attributes such as bold or underline to any of the 16 logical colors supported by the terminal emulator.
The color map maps the logical colors Color_0 through
to Color_15 (inclusive) to colors and the RGB values that
Secure Global Desktop uses to represent those colors. The default
mappings are as follows:
| Logical color | Terminal color | RGB value used by Secure Global Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Color_0 | Black | 0 0 0 |
| Color_1 | Light red | 255 0 0 |
| Color_2 | Light green | 0 255 0 |
| Color_3 | Yellow | 255 255 0 |
| Color_4 | Light blue | 0 0 255 |
| Color_5 | Light magenta | 255 0 255 |
| Color_6 | Light cyan | 0 255 255 |
| Color_7 | High white | 255 255 255 |
| Color_8 | Gray | 128 128 128 |
| Color_9 | Red | 128 0 0 |
| Color_10 | Green | 0 128 0 |
| Color_11 | Brown | 128 128 0 |
| Color_12 | Blue | 0 0 128 |
| Color_13 | Magenta | 128 0 128 |
| Color_14 | Cyan | 0 128 128 |
| Color_15 | White | 192 192 192 |
To alter the defaults for a particular application, create your own color map and specify it in the application object's Color Map attribute.
A default text-format color map
/opt/tarantella/etc/data/colormap.txt is provided.
For example, you might want to make the color red brighter. To do
this, you would change the RGB setting of Color_9 to
192 0 0.
Or, if you wanted items that appear in light green to appear
yellow, you would change the RGB setting of Color_2 to
255 255 0 (the RGB value of yellow).
One common color change is to switch the foreground and background
colors between black and white. When you do this, you are not changing
the foreground or background color as such -- you're changing the way
black (Color_0) and white (Color_15) are
displayed. Therefore, if your application has a white background and
you want to change it to a black background, you would change the
value of Color_15 to 0 0 0 (the RGB value of
black).
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