Questions tagged [iterm]
iTerm is a third party replacement for the built-in Terminal application.
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How can I get iTerm out of fullscreen mode?
I must have hit some keystrokes which got me stuck in full screen mode and there are no resize icons when you over mouse at top of screen even though the task bar shows up. How do I get out of full ...
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iTerm2 how to get autocomplete through tab key
In my terminal I can press tab key to autocomplete dir names etc but I can't do this in iTerm2. Is there any way to do that in iterm2? I'm using bash.
I know cmd ; shows autocomplete but I'd like to ...
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How can I stop iTerm2 changing color scheme after profile is loaded?
Whenever I open iTerm2 the color scheme changes to solarized-dark. It doesn't matter what changes I make to the profile, this alway happens. I can't seem to find where this change is happening in the ...
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How to render a specific character as transparent in terminal
I'm looking for a way of rendering a single character / escape sequence as transparent in iTerm2 or, if there is one, any other terminal emulator. With transparent I mean that it should show the ...
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Simple AppleScript exporting to Application does not work
I have created a simple script that takes some parameters as input, opens a new iTerm2 window and executes them.
The script is fairly simple:
on run argv
set argList to {}
repeat with arg ...
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Terminal broken.
I am having an issue and I have no clue what I should be searching to fix it. Not experienced enough.
I have zsh and probably other things I installed many years ago while making the terminal more my ...
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Two red lines/bars in iTerm2 window and error message about session ending, what is going on here?
I've been experimenting with threading and running bits of python from iTerm in MacOS yesterday. Today I opened iTerm and two windows opened, one with thick red lines inside it.
I received a Warning ...
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Removing a file from a protected folder in Mojave
Background
I am trying to remove Sound Flower from my Mac. I found some relative files in 3 places. I removed 2 of them but the third one is in a folder that will not allow me to remove it.
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How to reset iTerm2 Window/Tab Title when disconnecting from remote host? [duplicate]
I have my bash_profile on my Mac and the remote computers I connect to setup to automatically put the hostname in the window's (or tab's) title area.
A bash shell on my local machine
A remote host ...
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iTerm How to auto focus REPL?
I'm running on the latest version of iTerm and I'm using a vim plugin (https://github.com/noahfrederick/vim-laravel) that fires up a REPL with the command:
:Console
However, I have to focus the new ...
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iTerm2 - Accessibility and Full Disk Access
Just installed iTerm2 and it asked me change some settings in Security & Privacy of macOS.
At the moment I gave "Full Disk Access". Under "Accessibility" I see iTerm2 listed but without the ...
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iterm2 : using `clear` to demarcate different portions of screen in terminal scrollback
I run programs that generate a lot of output. In Terminal.app, if I typed clear twice, it would enter a terminal's height of white space in the scroll back output. This makes it easier look through ...
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How to open multiple iTerm2 tab with admin privilege
So I have an executable program in my /usr/local/bin/ called myApp. I need to run multiple myApp processes in new iTerm2 tabs with sudo.
The file structure is like this:
--myFolder
----v1
----v2
---...
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How do you change colour scheme between *panes* inside iTerm2 + oh-my-zsh?
I have seen a lot of solutions that allow changing of tab colour upon remote accessing into a server (see for example: https://gist.github.com/wadey/1140259 and many more).
What I want is to change ...
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iTerm2 shortcut for deleting selected
I've set some shortcuts in iTerm2, but I cannot find how to set MS Windows style cut functionality. I want to select some text (which I am able to) and then cut/past it somewhere else. I want also to ...
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Difference in font rendering between iTerm and Terminal.app
I've just installed iTerm 3.2.0. I'm using default settings and noticed that fonts look slightly different, compared to Terminal.app. A bit thinner, and glyph heights (or maybe distances between lines)...
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iTerm2 - Split vertically with same command history
Is it possible to have same history of commands when I split window vertically in iTerm2 with Command + D as in current window?
For example history command shows different list of commands, looks ...
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iTerm2 - Split vertically with current profile with same working directory
When splitting vertically with current profile by using the keyboard shortcut, Command + D, is it possible for the new iTerm window to have the same current working directory as the current one?
By ...
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How can I find which Control-Command keys are mapped to particular programs?
I am using iTerm2 under High Sierra 10.13.6. iTerm2 lets me assign Control-Command key combos to particular actions. This mostly works fine, but at least two of these do nothing: Control-Command-B and ...
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How to avoid unselect file dialog when pressing minus sign in Midnight commander on macOS
I try to type open -a TextEdit in the command line, but always Unselect dialog shows. I have tried disabling Unselect in the ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap or map it to something else, but nothing helps:
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Iterm2 Window goes to back when switching desktops
When a non-fullscreen iterm window is opened and the desktop is switched, the iterm window goes to the back, behind any open windows in the screen. Is there a way to keep the iterm window on top when ...
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Terminal command and Broken Pipe
I use the iTerm terminal a lot and occasionally I'll run a script with an "exit" in it. When that statement executes I get 2 orange horizontal lines drawn the width of my iTerm window with the message ...
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macOS terminal: quick way to edit command options after bash/zsh autocomplete
The issue
I use autocomplete from history a lot whether that's with up-arrow or typing the first few letters and completing the whole command including all arguments (options and others) with right-...
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iTerm2: Option + Number (0..9) key not working
I have a German keyboard layout and need e.g. Option+7 to write a pipe (|). Option+Letter (Letter=a..z) works fine, but Option+Number (Number=0..9) is not producing anything. However, if I press ...
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Bash history not initially remembered with iterm2
I've got an annoying problem with iterm2 not remembering my history when I close out a terminal window. I'm not sure if it might be my .bash_profile config or what.
Here is what is happening:
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iTerm Double Click Text Selection
I recently installed iTerm on both my Mac Pro & MacBook Pro and the text selection behavior is different on both the machines.
Consider the following line in terminal:
/Users/user/basic/...
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Make iTerm2 read profile from file, from the CLI?
I want to make iTerm have these values set:
- Load preferences from a custom folder or URL
- Save changes to folder when iTerm quits
And I want to set them from a CLI command (no GUI, no clicks).
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Terminal and iTerm appear to be partially opening in zsh
I recently installed Julia on my iMac running High Sierra. Julia seems to want to run in the Z-shell whereas I normally use bash. I haven't run Julia today but my Term2 windows are screwed up since ...
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Key binding in iTerm2
I am trying to bind a shortcut to perform cut command in iTerm2. Obviously, cut is bound to Cmd + x, but I would also like it to be bound to Ctrl + w.
I did this easily for paste by going to iTerm2 → ...
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Window opens but immediately disappears. This happens with multiple apps
Recently, I've run into problems with Notes, Mail, Messages, and iTerm. All of these are in my dock along with several other apps. Normally if I click on one of these it opens and works fine. ...
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iterm2 first tab transparency differs from default
I set up iTerm2 colours/backgrounds, however the first tab is always "lighter" (i.e. more transparent) than all the other tabs. When I set transparency in the profiles, I can see every tab except the ...
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How to stop iTerm2 closing tabs on error? [duplicate]
iTerm2 always closes the tab/window on error. By contrast, Terminal keeps it open so you can view the error.
How can I prevent iTerm2 from automatically closing the tab/window on error?
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Shift+tab no longer works on terminal
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro Retina 13", running the latest version of macOS. I use Iterm + zhsrc as terminal configuration but a few weeks ago my shortcut Alt + Tab stopped working.
If I'm executing ...
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Windows won't open from Mac Dock
I use iTerm a lot and keep the app in the dock. When I first start iTerm, it brings up a terminal window.
If I minimize its window I expect to be able to click on iTerm in dock to bring the iTerm ...
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Generic exit function for iTerm2
I've recently begun to use iTerm2 instead of the macOS Terminal application and I'm really happy with it. I'm very used to use to exit command to close the instance that currently has focus. With ...
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Using i2cssh with highSierra
I have the latest i2cssh installed
dmanna-a01:Downloads dmanna$ brew info i2cssh
i2cssh: stable 1.3, HEAD
https://github.com/djui/i2cssh
/usr/local/Cellar/i2cssh/1.3 (5 files, 6.5KB) *
Built from ...
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Opening iTerm2 with specific layout and commands
Is it possible to automate the process of starting iTerm2 in a way to:
create 2 tabs with few horizontal splits,
send a different command to each splitted tab which is basically ssh to remote server
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Rebalancing panes evenly in iTerm
Is there a way to rebalance panes in iTerm so that they are all arranged evenly? I'm trying to write an AppleScript that can ssh into X number of hosts in different panes. Writing the script is pretty ...
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Whole word search in less?
How can I do a whole word search in less? Per this post on a unix/linux forum you can use regex 'whole word' markers \<word\> but that doesn't seem to work for me on macOS 10.13.4 (17E202) in ...
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How can I set the iTerm2 window title to be the same no matter which pane is selected?
I'm aware that the iTerm2 window title can be set with
echo -ne "\033]0;"Title goes here"\007"
but that appears to only set the title for a single pane. When I switch panes, the window title is ...
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Pasting long string in terminal (iTerm) is very slow [duplicate]
I use iTerm (default settings) + oh-my-zsh on my macOS. To setup my mac i used dotfiles from mathiasbynens/dotfiles which i'm happy with but the only issue i can't figure out how to fix is, when i ...
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CTRL+c / CMD+Dot and rs not working in tmux on iTerm or Terminal
CTRL+c / CMD+Dot and the nodemon rs commands are not working in tmux on iTerm or Terminal. No errors but just not working. Restarting terminal/iTerm/tmux does not fix it. It never works.
Update: it ...
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iTerm2: Notice about PHP7.1
Every time I open a new iTerm2 window is shown the following warning:
Warning: Use php@7.1 instead of deprecated homebrew/php/php71
Anyone can help me out please?
I've uninstalled PHP, and ...
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Force language change on focus into terminal
Is there any way of forcing input language set to default one on terminal/iterm focus?
Basically what I want to achieve is setting current keyboard input language to English on switching back from ...
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Can I modify iTerm window titles for some but not all running commands?
I was looking for a solution to auto set custom title in the terminal based on what command is being run on the current terminal. So, rather than java showing in many tabs - I'd love to have it pick ...
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Make iTerm2 window history larger
In iTerm2 3.1.5 on macOS High Sierra, I want to be able see more of my history as I scroll. Currently the scroll history is not enough for me. How can I increase the amount of data history I see while ...
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AppleScript: How to tell if an app has a window in the current workspace?
I use an AppleScript script with Path Finder (and a similar one with Finder) to identify the current folder in PF, and then open an iTerm session with the CWD set to that folder. It checks to see if ...
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How in IRSSI can I switch channels? CTRL + number doesn't work
I just installed irssi using Brew in High Sierra. Using iTerm 2, I can't figure out how to change windows (channels). Pressing CTRL 2 for example doesn't take me to channel 2 like it would on an Linux ...
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iTerm is not using any config files when invoked for ssh
What I want to do: open an iTerm window/tab, and ssh to some remote system. On that remote system, I need the following exports to be "effective":
export LANG="C"
export LC_ALL="C"
When I open that ...
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How to keep terminal window open in AppleScript after end tell?
I have this osascript with a command
tell application "iTerm2"
create window with default profile command "uwm"
end tell
Now the iTerm window closes at end tell but I want to keep iTerm window ...
