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Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by alanh »

xenihn wrote: post #107
glossyscr wrote: post #27

iTerm is OSX' killer app. Couldn't find anything similar on Windows. I used MobaXTerm which is ok but never feels as polished and slick as iTerm. Especially iTerm's own fullscreen mode which allows to quickly alt-tab is great.

OSX-only apps that I absolutely love and consider must-haves: Free: Iterm2 Spectacles Sip Not free: Dash Textmate (I use it as the equivalent of Windows' Notepad.exe) Transmit Sketch Paw If anyone has any other suggestions for things that they consider must-haves, I'd love to know about them so I can try them out!

I wrote a small blog post on OS X must-have apps[1] back in 2009, but I realize more or less all but the most obvious (e.g., Chrome) have changed.

Now: InsomniaX (like Caffeine.app, but maintained); Bartender; LaunchBar (mostly for clipboard management - easily my favorite manager); iStat Menus; Atom; Tweetbot; Dropbox; and to a lesser extent, iA Writer. (And BowTie for a Last.fm scrobbler, because it's the only one that works with Apple Music)

[1]: http://alanhogan.com/starter-mac-apps

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by kaishiro »

autoreleasepool wrote: post #238
Rafert wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He might be the first one to ask? Unless my grasp of the English language is slipping, he asked politely without any expectations? On topic: I've seen Patreon used by some of the more well-known YouTube science video creators (CGP Grey, Kurzgesagt, Numberphile come to mind) so it seems to be ok.

But seriously, do you honestly expect him to append his setup just because _aarti asked politely about his particular situation? Seems like a bit much to ask of a total stranger and it only benefits one person. Everyone else can use PayPal just fine. Also, asking for a favor implies an expectation. Prove me wrong.

Take it easy. Maybe he's never heard of Patreon - I hadn't. He never asked for a favor. Everything doesn't have to be a fight.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by autoreleasepool »

kaishiro wrote: post #242
autoreleasepool wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But seriously, do you honestly expect him to append his setup just because _aarti asked politely about his particular situation? Seems like a bit much to ask of a total stranger and it only benefits one person. Everyone else can use PayPal just fine. Also, asking for a favor implies an expectation. Prove me wrong.

Take it easy. Maybe he's never heard of Patreon - I hadn't. He never asked for a favor. Everything doesn't have to be a fight.

> I make all my donations with Patreon, would be great if you could add support for that, if it's not too much trouble. https://www.patreon.com/

He explicitly, but politely, asked for a favor.

Also, who's fighting? I'm not. It's weird different people keep responding to this thread though.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by fserb »

gnachman wrote: post #162
fserb wrote: post #91

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Any chance that this new beta has support for borderless windows? I still use a forked version that doesn't have border.

You can make a window without a title bar now, if that's what you mean. It's one of the window styles in Prefs>Profiles>Window.

<3

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by isomorphic »

isomorphic wrote: post #195
x0 wrote: post #89

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You can change the colour of the title bar in iTerm with an ansi code! I have different colours for all of my servers: http://i.imgur.com/mdF3XBz.png This will give you a title bar with RGB values 20, 20, 20: printf -- $'\033]6;1;bg;red;brightness;20\a\033]6;1;bg;green;brightness;20\a\033]6;1;bg;blue;brightness;20\a' Documentation: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html

I didn't know that. Thank you!

This comment may be lost, but for Google posterity, it appears that this feature only sets the window titlebar if you aren't displaying the tab bar. Otherwise, the escape codes set the color of the tab.

It would be nice to have separate escape sequences for the window titlebar and for the tabs.

My interest in this is to dim the glaring-white strip of the Mac OS X window chrome when I have dark tabs, a dark-background terminal, and a dark menubar. If you have many such dark terminals open, the Mac OS X window chrome really interferes with the visual consistency of the setup.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by Tiksi »

bechampion wrote: post #5

that is the one thing i miss from osx .. i had all kinds of triggers on screen , specially colouring ip addresses , and urls and guids .. hope it comes to linux one day.

Probably not the kind of customization most people are looking for, but you can do all that with urxvt extensions: http://jbl.web.cern.ch/jbl/doc/urxvt/

A lot more of a pain in the ass to write extensions from scratch instead of having a UI to configure, especially if you're not big on perl, but there's a good amount of extensions out there that are ready to use as well.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by jlgaddis »

colechristensen wrote: post #82
gnachman wrote: post #6

(author here). I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it'll be a rough upgrade for some folks. I'd love to hear any thoughts on how to make this less painful. My first experiment with in-app advertising (promoting the beta version through a popup dialog) has gone well, with a 31% click-through rate, an…

I was actually just very mildly annoyed by this in-app promotion. (trying to convey the absolute minimum amount of annoyance while still being annoyed) While I was typing it popped up and opened a browser when I hit enter, entirely without me seeing more than a flash of the ad.

Same here, except I didn't even see the ad at all. I only realized it when I looked back at the screen and Chrome had focus and was on a new tab with the "promo". Not a big deal, though.

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by Secretmapper »

kaishiro wrote: post #168
Secretmapper wrote: post #134

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It's very short, but you can checkout my post on vim + [iTerm]( http://arianv.com/post/My-First-Month-with-Vim/ ) Basically, I really love the fullscreen keybinding, hotkeys, colors and search ( though the default terminal already has this I think)

Appreciate it! So, the show/hide feature seems to be the one really interesting thing to me. We're both vimmers and it sounds like we have similar workflows. What's killing me right now, is that coming from Debian I always had 5 desktops setup on Alt+1-5. I've got the same thing on Command+1-5 now, but if I force Terminal.app to fullscreen in OSX in the Desktop 1 spot, it's no longer available via Alt+1, since it spi…

Hey!

I'm not sure if I fully understand your query, so let me know if I'm off the mark:

The answer is iTerm is incredibly configurable! iTerm can run on it's own 'fullscreen' window (Lion Style, you know, like say, full screen chrome) OR it can use a transparent fullscreen that basically just fills the current screen you are in, not creating a new 'desktop/space' (the gif on my blog post shows this).

APART from that you can also configure iTerm to show up on all desktops - i.e. I'll have documentation on desktop 1 and the actual site on desktop 2 and I can bring up the same terminal window with `alt space`.

So I do think that the answer to your question is YES!

That's probably the awesome thing about iTerm. There's no "super big killer feature" but it just provides enough options that whatever workflow you have/want, it most likely can support it.

And nice to meet a fellow vimmer! Thanks for the appreciating the CSS ribbons too :)

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by alanh »

x0 wrote: post #89
isomorphic wrote: post #4

I love iTerm2, I keep up with the "current" beta versions, using them all day in production. I would love it if they'd make a "dark" titlebar version of the window chrome. My setup currently has windows without any titlebar at all (thanks to iTerm for that feature!), but it makes rearranging windows challenging. I look forward to trying out the newer features!

You can change the colour of the title bar in iTerm with an ansi code! I have different colours for all of my servers: http://i.imgur.com/mdF3XBz.png This will give you a title bar with RGB values 20, 20, 20: printf -- $'\033]6;1;bg;red;brightness;20\a\033]6;1;bg;green;brightness;20\a\033]6;1;bg;blue;brightness;20\a' Documentation: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html

How are you doing this in your servers? Adding it to your shell profiles on said servers?

Re: iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

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Post by x0 »

alanh wrote: post #249
x0 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can change the colour of the title bar in iTerm with an ansi code! I have different colours for all of my servers: http://i.imgur.com/mdF3XBz.png This will give you a title bar with RGB values 20, 20, 20: printf -- $'\033]6;1;bg;red;brightness;20\a\033]6;1;bg;green;brightness;20\a\033]6;1;bg;blue;brightness;20\a' Documentation: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html

How are you doing this in your servers? Adding it to your shell profiles on said servers?

It's in my .zlogin or .zshrc on my servers, and it's in my PS1 on my home computer, so when I exit the servers it resets nicely.
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