The status bar is located at the bottom of the terminal window. When browsing through the menu options or toolbar buttons, the status bar displays a short context-sensitive help text.

When the menus or toolbars are not browsed, the left side of the status bar indicates the remote host computer you are currently connected to. If you are not connected, the status bar displays the text Not connected - Press Enter/Space to connect.

Figure C.3. The terminal window status bar

The next status bar field shows the current encryption algorithm, MAC algorithm, and compression separated by dashes (for example: 3des-cbc - hmac-md5 - none).

The next field displays the number of columns and rows of the Terminal window. If you change the size of the terminal window, this window size indicator will be immediately updated.