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Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by davidcuddeback »

shabble wrote: post #43
angerman wrote: post #12

Awesome! iTerm + zsh... If only I could disable the scrollbar :/ On a related note, is there a show/hide animation like Visor too? I liked the "slide in/slide out" animation a lot.

The visor-like mode is enabled if you dock it to a window-edge (prefs->profile->window tab, 'style = top of screen' setting). System-wide hotkey settings are in Prefs->Keys There's also a 'hidden' setting for the animation delay, settable with `defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 HotkeyTermAnimationDuration \ -float 0.25`

Thank you! Being able to shorten the animation is the only thing I felt was missing. The default animation is way too long for my taste.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by grandalf »

shabble wrote: post #107
grandalf wrote: post #94

This looks great. Two questions: - How does one change the background color for the panes that don't have focus? The black vs charcoal distinction is a bit too subtle for me. - Is it possible to map command-` to cycle between panes? If so, how?

1) I don't think you can change the colour, but you can adjust the dimming level with: defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 SplitPaneDimmingAmount -float 0.25 # [range from 0-1.0, lower is darker] Maybe add a feature request for a 'inactive panes colour' widget to be added to the Profile colours tab. NB: Changing the dim amount seems to require a restart of iTerm to take effect. 2) Set a global keybinding (Prefs->Key…

thanks!

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by Uchikoma »

irahul wrote: post #106
shabble wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A terminal multiplexer is a way to create and access multiple ttys from a single terminal (-emulator). Both of the most widely known (GNU Screen and tmux) are terminal-only apps - They require a terminal or terminal emulator to act as their user interface. Terminal emulators, as the name suggest, emulate terminals. Since most people don't tend to use dedicated VT100s any more, we use emulators like xterm, rxvt, Termi…

> A terminal multiplexer is a way to create and access multiple ttys from a single terminal (-emulator). Thanks. I know that and use screen, and the post we are discussing mentions tmux, so he knows it as well. > whereas an emulator with some mux features can provide benefits not easily achievable with a standalone multiplexer. The op was being snarky but that was the whole point. iterm2 doesn't seem to be giving som…

So you don't think a term emulator on MacOS X is useful to you because you use Linux.

And the insight of your comment was exactly what?

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by wahnfrieden »

tvon wrote: post #97
tjarratt wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd actually disagree - I think the fullscreen support is really good. What didn't you like about it?

I'm used to either Visor or iTerm providing "instant" full-screen terminal access, but taking apps full-screen in Lion seems to involve a nearly tedious animation. Granted, now that I think about it, I have seen a bug that makes Spaces-switching slow, so it's possible I'm just seeing the same thing in the full-screen animation. To put it another way, the result is fine, I just don't like the transition.

I wish there were a way to turn off most transitions in OSX. Anyone know some hack?

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by lloeki »

tednaleid wrote: post #42
tptacek wrote: post #23

I wasn't a fan of iTerm "1". What's new in 2? Someone got a summary? I don't see it on their site.

I switched to terminal from iTerm 1. I switched to iTerm 2 from terminal because of: - true split windows (cmd-d horizontal, cmd-shift-d vertical), as many as you can fit - good split window navigation (cmd-opt-arrow) - "save" window split setup - cmd-shift-s to save, cmd-shift-r to restore - better search, all from the command line - full 256 color support without any hacks - copy to clipboard on selection option (s…

Different behavior for left/right alt is a must for me:

- Left-Alt = Meta/+Esc

- Right-Alt = OS X Alt

I built an .inputrc/.zshrc so that text/word/line movements behave the same as in Cocoa text fields, like Ctrl+Left/Right and Alt+Left/Right.

Had I done that under Terminal.app, I would have given up on being able to type characters like | (Alt+Shift+L) or ~ (Alt+N) on my French keyboard, which would make a terminal much, much less useless.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by dkastner »

deweller wrote: post #41

I'd like to try iTerm2, but "groups" in Terminal.app is a must-have feature for me. Anyone know of a workaround for iTerm2 that will let me save a group of windows and starting commands?

I've created a quick fork of tmuxinator (originally used for defining sessions for tmux) to also generate iTerm setup scripts: https://github.com/dkastner/tmuxinator

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

thenduks wrote: post #91
TylerE wrote: post #9

Does the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though. Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right: http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png

Off-topic: Something interesting about the aesthetics of text to point out here. I had to double-take which you said was left and which was right. I was sure that you were saying the left was iTerm2, because to me the one on the right has clearly superior text rendering ( especially the bold)!

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Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by TylerE »

thenduks wrote: post #91
TylerE wrote: post #9

Does the font rendering seem very different to anyone else? Using the same font (Anonymous Pro 14pt), I had to increase the vertical spacing from 1.0 (as it was in iTerm) to ~1.18 to get the same spacing. Bold is rendered differently (worse) too. It does seem quite a bit snappier on my old G5 though. Comparison shot: iTerm on the left, iterm2 on right: http://i.imgur.com/9yA8y.png

Off-topic: Something interesting about the aesthetics of text to point out here. I had to double-take which you said was left and which was right. I was sure that you were saying the left was iTerm2, because to me the one on the right has clearly superior text rendering ( especially the bold)!

At a glance, quite possibly. It's entirely possible that it's one of those 'tiny changes that bugs you' sort of things. When you look at a font rendered in an exact way for 6 or so years, slight changes just look really...off.

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by singingwolfboy »

gnachman wrote: post #69
singingwolfboy wrote: post #66

The SVN repo doesn't have a tag for version 1.0. I know it's a quibble, but it's useful for people who maintain package managers like Macports. :(

Fixed now. Googlecode truncates the listing in the web view, but it's under tags/v1_0_0

Thank you! It's now updated in Macports, as well. :)

Re: ITerm2 1.0 Released

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Post by kungfooguru »

I don't use screen locally so when I ssh into boxes and use screen I'm not screen in screen and have to double-a. So I like tabs.

A feature that would be awesome (if it doesn't exist, by default at least it doesn't) is being able to have tabs per split.

OSX's window manager is so poor in my opinion that I would love to be able to have a full screen iterm2 but I like to have one terminal on the left and one on the right which has many tabs -- just helps with the cluster I'm dealing with. So without being able to have tabs only on the right split I have to use two iterm2s.

Just a thought.

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