3. Customization

To change the application settings, select Settings->Preferences.... This opens the Preferences dialog, shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. Preferences Dialog

The properties in the Functionality tab are:

Echo the text sent?

If this is set, all the text you type and enter will be echoed on the connection so you can control what you are sending.

Keep the text entered?

If this is set, the text you have entered and sent to the connection, will be left in the entry box but selected. Turn this off to remove the text after it has been sent.

Freeze/Thaw?

If set, text will draw faster but it will not draw every character, only whole strings. This will probably make displays a lot faster if you are playing MUDs with a lot of different colours.

Disable system keys

If set, GNOME-Mud will provide with some default keybinds, like for example direction aliases in the numeric keypad. These can always be overriden by user keybindings, or can be totally disabled from here.

Command divide char

Insert the character you want to use to separate multi-command orders entered in the command line. For example, if set to ";", entering "north ; east" in the command line will execute two independent commands "north", "east".

Command history

This is the number of commands that GNOME-Mud will store in it's command history.

The properties in the Colors and Fonts tab are:

Font

Click here to open a font selection window to select the desired font to be used in the connection window.

Foreground color

This will open a color chooser dialog that you can use to select the font color you want to use.

Bold foreground color

This will open a color chooser dialog that you can use to select the bold font color you want to use.

Background color

This will open the same dialog as before, but will select the foreground color of your font.

Color Palette

This is a series of buttons which lets you define your own colors for ANSI. Each color represents one ANSI color which you can redefine.

After you have made all the changes you want, click on OK to apply the changes and close the Preferences dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Close button.