If you’re a Mac user, you know that the Terminal is your go-to tool for managing your computer’s settings and commands. But if you’re a Windows user, you may not know how to use Terminal. Here’s how:
- Open Terminal.app on your Mac or Windows computer.
- Type “help” and hit return to get help on how to use Terminal.
- Type “man” and hit return to get help on specific commands for Terminal. For example, type “man 1” to get help on the first command in Terminal: man 1 is the first command in Terminal that helps you learn about theTerminal’s features and usage.
A quick google search came up with iTerm, a superior application that’s earned a permanent place in my toolbox.
If you look very closely, you can see the transparency, which is completely configurable (I set mine to 10%). All of the colors are customizable as well.. I prefer the green on black, but you can use it in the default configuration if you want.
Right-clicking on the terminal will give you quick access to your saved “bookmarks”.
Or you can hit cmd+B to open up a panel on the side showing the bookmarks, but I haven’t yet figured out how to launch them via the keyboard. You can launch a new tab with the cmd+T shortcut, but it’ll use your default session.
If you take a look in the preferences, there’s a bunch of options to change the look & feel of tabs… you’ll need to restart iTerm to actually see all the changes, even though it looks like it changes them right away.
And a very interesting feature… full screen mode! I was really surprised to see this one in there.
There’s a lot more features, so you’ll just have to take a look.
Download iTerm from SourceForge
