NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System User's Guide
The Options menu lets you control some aspects of document display.
If you do not use the default settings, you must reset your preferences
each time you open a NCSA Mosaic session. You can also configure these
options using X resources (see
``System Configuration and Modification
Assistance' for additional information).
The items on this menu have toggle buttons to the left of each menu
item. The square toggle indicates the toggle is off. The yellow
toggle indicates it is on.
- Fancy Selections
- With this toggle activated, selections made with the XWindow System's
cut and paste mechanism preserves as much formatting (e.g., headers,
tabs) as possible.
- Load to Local Disk
- With this toggle switch activated, the Save Binary File
to Local Disk window opens as a hyperlink is activated for you
to enter a filename and directory to save the current file. File
is not displayed; it is copied to your local disk.
- Delay Image Loading
- With this toggle activated, inlined images are not loaded until
requested, thereby increasing the speed of a document's display.
In the place of each image is an icon, which is a hyperlink to
the inlined image:
- Load Images in Current
- Loads the inlined images in the current document. Use this menu
option if you have requested NCSA Mosaic delay image loading.
- Reload Config Files
- Causes mailcaps and extension maps to be reloaded on the fly. See
``System Configuration and
Modification Assistance''
for additional information on multimedia and external viewers.
- Flush Image Cache
- Clears cached images, reclaiming memory.
- Clear Global History...
- Clears all entries in the Window History window for this and previous
sessions. The image cache is also cleared. The global history file
is by default named .mosaic-global-history and is a dot file in
your home directory.
Clearing the global history file changes the on-screen depiction
of all previously viewed hyperlinks from viewed to unviewed.
- Fonts
- Opens a submenu with 3 options for each of four fonts: Times, Helvetica,
New Century, and Lucida Bright.
- Anchor Underlines
- Opens a submenu with the choices for hyperlink display: default
underlines; light, medium, or heavy underlines; or no underlines
at all (color only identifies the hyperlinks).
NOTE: Font and anchor underline choices are inherited
by all new windows opened. You can change an individual window's display
as desired.
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