iTerm is a third party replacement for the built-in Terminal application.
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What is the difference between iTerm2 and Terminal?
I keep hearing that iTerm2 is much better than Terminal. I downloaded iTerm2 today and played around with it, but I couldn't see what is so much better about iTerm2. iTerm2 seemed just like Terminal.
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Set iTerm2 as the ssh:// URL handler
Currently, Terminal is set to handle SSH urls. For example, if I do:
$ open ssh://machine.example.com
Then it will spawn a new SSH session in terminal. I'd like these to be opened in iTerm2 ...
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How can I save tabs in iTerm 2 so they restore the next time the app is run?
Can I save tabs on exit in my iTerm 2, so I don't have to open same directories again after restart?
Like Chrome does, for example.
I couldn't find such option in settings. Maybe "Arrangements" is ...
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Option + click in iTerm
In Terminal, Option + click allows me to place my cursor at any point on the current line-- great for editing really long commands.
How can I do this in iTerm2?
Update: According to this page, the ...
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Using tmux and pbpaste, pbcopy, and launchctl
I have discovered that tmux breaks pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl.
Is there a good way to make it play nice with these tools?
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Why don't my arrow keys work in vim under iTerm?
They work just fine if I use Terminal and start a vim session, but under iTerm I have to resort to using H-J-K-L to do left-up-down-right movement.
In both Terminal and iTerm TERM=xterm-color. My ...
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How to jump to a location using mouse on iTerm/terminal?
I work on a terminal most of the time.
Is there an application / plugin over iTerm or any other terminal like application using which I can control the cursor location of my terminal using a mouse ?
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Is it possible to have bash escape spaces in pwd?
I'd like to copy the current directory to the clipboard, something like: pwd | pbcopy. However, pwd does not escape the space, so something in "Application Support", for example, doesn't copy ...
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iTerm2/Terminal full screen
Why is it not possible to have iTerm2 or Terminal app take up the full available space on the screen. Let me show an example:
It's hard to see but if you look on the right and bottom edge, there is ...
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Tell iTerm2 not to remember open windows on quit
After a recent upgrade of iTerm2 (I'm on build 1.0.0.20120203), when I open up iTerm2, it restores all of the terminal windows I had open. How do I disable this behavior so it doesn't "remember" how ...
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Control not working in iTerm 2 when using Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout
I'm using the Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout and found that the Control key does not work in iTerm 2. Emacs is unusable as a result, and I can't interrupt processes with Ctrl-C. Interestingly, the ...
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Open iTerm2 SSH session in new window instead of new tab
Now that I figured out how to set iTerm2 as the ssh:// URL handler, I'd like iTerm2 to respond to an ssh URL by opening a new window instead of opening a new tab in an existing window. Is this ...
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Are there any global key combinations suitable or specifically reserved on OS X for user assignment?
I'm trying to identify an appropriate global hotkey to set in iTerm2's preferences for showing/hiding it:
I'd like to avoid any conflicts with other applications' hotkeys or other future use. Are ...
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iTerm as a slide-out terminal from the top of the screen
I have installed iTerm2 and was hoping I'd have something like guake (Yes I just switched from Ubuntu). I mapped the hotkey to a button of my choice and it works fine, but I miss the ...
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iTerm ZSH - Missing Right Prompt
I'm using oh-my-zsh and iTerm2. I've also enabled the zsh-vim-mode plugin from oh-my-zsh. One of the annoyances I've encountered is my right prompt (RPS1 & RPROMPT) doesn't seem to show up. I'd ...
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How to find delay when launching new Terminal (iTerm)
When I press CMD+N in iTerm2 to bring up a new iTerm window, sometimes it takes 10 seconds before I get my prompt. If I immediately repeat the process, the whole thing takes 1 second. To me this ...
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vim not working under iTerm2
Basically, vim behaves strange under iTerm2 (it works normally in Terminal). It sets the cursor in a non existing lines, it displays garbage (content from other lines) when I try to edit a line in a ...
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Do I need to buy Growl in order to use the iterm2 grown feature?
Seems the notification is not working, or do I need to buy the Growl from App Store in order to use?
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How can I move through words when typing a command in iTerm2?
I'm in Lion
with iTerm2, Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh
but I cannot move through words when pressing: ALT+left arrow or CMD+left arrow or something
instead, when I press "ALT+right arrow" it prints [C
and when ...
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How do I get vim to work at 256 colors in iTerm?
I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10).
On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac.
I copied over all the settings, set $TERM ...
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What do the different colors of the tab title in iTerm2 mean?
While using iTerm2, I have noticed that sometimes the color of the title of a tab changes to pink with a loading indicator or changes to red. What do these things mean?
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Automating terminals at startup
Is there any way to automate a bunch of terminals starting up at once. I find myself opening several windows and running the same sequence of commands in various tabs. I'd like to stick all this in a ...
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Why does iterm2 close new sessions immediately?
I've made some changes to my .bashrc file in my new MacBook, mainly aliases for common commands.
Shortly after, iterm2 immediately closes every new session or tab with the following cryptic message:
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How to sent the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination via iTerm2?
We use the Apple "Pro Keyboard", which is a USB keyboard with model number M7803, and iTerm2 build 1.0.0 with "ipmitool sol activate" running.
Our goal is to sent the Control+Alt+Delete key ...
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How to change color profiles on ssh iterm2 on SSH?
mac os x lion;
Using Iterm2;
I wish to change my iterm2 color profiles if I do ssh on terminal.
Can this be done ?
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ls output does not have color while SSHing to another machine with iTerm2, but does with Terminal
Just as the title says, when I ssh to my work Fedora server with iTerm2 I don't get color ls output. When I ssh to the same server with OS X's default Terminal app, ls color output works just fine.
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Can I tell iTerm 2 to change color when I'm root
I would like to tell iTerm2 to have red text whenever I'm root when logged into a server.
Note:
I'm not able to change any configuration on the remote server.
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LANG variable wrong in iTerm2, where's the bug?
Today I noticed that when opening TortoiseHG the app was in Dutch (partially, not fully translated it seems). Looking around in my environment I found out that LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8.
It is indeed true ...
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How to start preview from command line and get back to the terminal when I press ESC?
I do want to add file view support for media files to midnight commander and I something that can be called form the command line that would start preview but that will return to my terminal when I ...
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How do I make terminal sessions resume on Lion with iterm2 and tcshrc
My understanding is that with Lion my terminal windows should restore their state. However, this does not happen for me. I wonder if this is because I use tcsh instead of bash?
Is there something I ...
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iTerm2 more contrast to active tab
Is there a way using iTerm2 to give the active tab more contrast compared to the rest of the tabs?
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Switching terminal styles in iTerm 2
Recently I've been trying to become more efficient at the command line, and stumbled upon iTerm 2 a couple days ago. One feature of iTerm 2 is that windows can appear from the top of the screen, so ...
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Change mouse pointer in iTerm2 (or disable mouse pointer)
In iTerm2 (fullscreen mode) my pointer is permanently a "text select" pointer. It bothers me, so I would either like to change it (to the regular arrow-type pointer) or disable it when in my ...
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The history is shared between my iTerm2 terminal tabs: how can I switch that off?
I am using iTerm2 (with zsh), and for some reason the history is shared between the different tabs and windows that are open. In most of the cases for me, this is annoying, since I have tabs per ...
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How to customise .inputrc to make command-delete and alt delete delete line and word in terminal?
I'd like to add a little bit of consistency between editing text on the terminal and editing text in normal OSX programs. I use iTerm2, but I imagine any solution would involve using readline and ...
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vim arrow keys inserting strange character in iterm2
vim escape & arrow keys are inserting strange character (the letter q in my case) but works perfectly if launched in a tmux session or with termianl.app
Someone having the same problem?
Thank ...
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Ctrl + Cmd + Return doesn't maximize active pane in iTerm2
The split panes functionality is the primary reason why i use iTerm2.
I can maximize/unminimize the active pane by using the View -> Maximize Active Pane menu item.
But nothing happens when I press ...
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open iTerm drop down console on different screen
I use iTerm since a few days, and when i press my hotkey, it'll drop down nicely, from top of the screen, but ... on the wrong one.
I have a macbook pro with mountain lion, and i connect it to a 24" ...
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iTerm2 save window/tabs on exit?
I tried to save a window arrangement but when I open iTerm it opens two windows:
one with my saved arrangement
one with no arrangements
How can I make iTerm2 remember my Window/tabs layout?
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taglist in iterm2
I use taglist vim plugin in iterm2
when I use :TlistToggle, the first time is ok
but the second time of :TlistToggle, I get
any suggestions ?
PD: I don't have this problem in fullscreen
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Why does Terminal ignore capital “B”?
this happens to me from time to time: when I am using the Terminal, suddenly the terminal starting to ignore the capital 'B', regular 'b' works fine, other capital letter work fine. other applications ...
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Customizing iTerm. Creating a display profile with Pastel color
I was trying to follow the instructions given on the page http://kpumuk.info/mac-os-x/customizing-iterm-creating-a-display-profile-with-pastel-colors/
After running the final command when I reopen ...
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Keyboard shortcuts for new window in Chrome or iTerm2
Is there any functionality in Chrome, iTerm2, or a keyboard shortcut app that will let me open a new window (Chrome or iTerm2) in a global environment?
It should open a new window regardless of ...
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Why does Terminal swallow Ctrl+up/down keystrokes?
In Terminal.app on Snow Leopard, the key combinations Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ don't get passed through correctly. Instead Terminal.app receives a single ↑ or ↓ key stroke.
I have verified this by running ...
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How to get Ctrl+return key binding for emacs in iTerm2 working?
I have Control+Return key bound to a function that I use very often. This works when i run emacs in x-windows. But when I run emacs in iTerm2 control+return just has the effect of line-feed (i.e as if ...
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For iTerm2, how do I make the working directory appear in the window title?
I recently switched to iTerm2 from the default Terminal app and have a usability issue.
On Terminal, the working directory you are in shows up on the title bar along with the process and pixel ...
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How can I connect Linux server with Applescript using iTerm or Terminal?
I want to connect and run bash script on Linux server automatically by using Applescript and iTerm or Terminal on OS X.
How can I connect Linux server with Applescript use iTerm or Terminal?
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I've managed to break my terminal, (iTerm2(b17), ZSH, OSX10.6.6)
I'm migrating to a shiny new laptop (yay) unfortunately I've manually set up my iTerm to match the old machine, but something is not right (not yay).
I'm experiencing
using xterm-256color doesn't ...
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iTerm2 and MacVim - how to make them play nicely together
I use vim with this wonderful plugin which constantly changes my colorscheme in order to let me find my perfect one.
I use iTerm 2 too, which is themed itself. Now, when I use the non-GUI version of ...
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Remapping keys in iterm2
I'm trying to remap some of the default key combinations in iTerm2, and would like to understand what is going on when I bind keys to "Send Hex Codes".
A previous post helped me get started with ...
