SAP GUI Color Settings for System

SAP GUI

I’m posting a small hint which helps to recognize in which SAP system you are connected via SAP GUI. Sometimes when you are working with several sessions in different systems and you switching between windows very often it is problem to do not get confused. 

To avoid such an mistakes you can change the color of SAP GUI windows for production client screen to red color for test systems to some different color and as well some other color for development systems. Procedure to do so is following: 

Log in to some SAP system in which you want to change the color via SAP GUI ->; select 

Customizing local layout (ALT+F12) -> Set color to system (select color) -> Save. 

– update 24/06/2011 – 

Kindly notice that within new SAP Signature Design it is not possible to use functionality of GUI color change. This is due to fact that SAP Signature Design isprovided with its own new color scheme. Simply it is not permitted to change any colors in this design. You have still option to change your GUI design settings in Window’s Control Panel -> SAP GUI Configuration to other layouts (so called themes) like: STREAMLINE or TRADESHOW. 

For further reference check following SAP notes:

780864 – Color settings in the SAP GUI for Windows cannot be changed

1233328 – SAP Signature Design for SAP GUI for Windows– 

update 03/03/2012 – 
Thank you to Anonymous contributor to discussion of this blog who pointed me to SDN’s forum post solving issue of how to set GUI color for GUI 7.20. As per suggestion in this forum post:http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1904282Change color is only possible for ENJOY theme. Therefore set your GUI to this theme via Control Panel or SAP GUI Options dialog. Then logon to a particular system and via ALT+F12 -> Options -> Visual Design -> Color to System set color to system.

Also See: High Level & Fundamental understandings of SAP System Architecture