Miscellaneous preferences

 

Launch the miscellaneous preferences menu through a pull down menu item under the Option menu. A resource entry controls the availability or unavailability of the miscellaneous preferences menu item.

Valid values for the reference are as follows:

enable

Allows you to use 5250 miscellaneous preferences. Enable is the default value.

disable_and_hide

Does not allow you to use the 5250 miscellaneous preferences program and the menu item is not displayed.

At 5250 session initialization, the emulator checks to see if there is a Miscellaneous file in the user's directory ($HOME/.iSeriesAccess/ibm_5250 ). If the file is not found, the internal defaults are used. The 5250 miscellaneous preferences are as follows:

• Cursor Style

• Cursor Blink

• Enter/Field Exit key locations

• Print key location

• Destructive Backspace key

• Hot spots

• Hot spots highlighting

• Paste start location

• Auto Help for operator error

• Operator error reset

• Keyboard buffering

• Large screen behavior

• Row column indicator

• Rule line key

• Rule line style

• Blue underscore

When a preference is modified, the change is temporarily applied to all 5250 sessions.

 

Parent topic:

X resources for the iSeries Access for Linux emulator