Introduction
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.
iTerm project is currently on hold (See the goodbye note from Fabian). We recommend you to check out iTerm 2, a new project that is based on iTerm and has many new features and enhancements.
Features
Highlights
- Full screen mode for a distraction free environment.
- Transparent windows with blurring and custom background pictures
- Supports select-to-copy and mid-button paste
- Smart window placement
- xterm mouse reporting for click and scroll events
- Focus follow mouse
- Applescript support
- Bonjour support
- Works on PowerPC and Intel Macs on 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6
VT100 Emulation
- terminfo support with flexible custom key-mapping
- Supports a variety of additional xterm escape sequences, including xterm titling sequence and xterm mouse reporting
- ANSI 16 colors, which are also fully customizable
- Supports 256 color mode
- Setting of the COLORFGBG variable for autodetection of color scheme in apps like Vim
- Anti-idle function that avoids disconnection because of no activity
Tabbed Terminals
- Tabs can be drag and drop between windows.
- Tab labels can change color to indicate the session activities
- Choose among Metal, Aqua, Adium, and Unified styles
- You can send keyboard input to multiple tabs
Bookmarks and Profiles
- You can fully customize each session, with support of macro in bookmark commands
- Bookmarks can be specified to handle URLs such as ftp.
- Create profiles for managing bookmark settings.
Multi-Lingual
- User can specify a second font to display non-latin characters to achieve best look
- Supports double-width characters, as used in many eastern Asian languages
- Supports all language encodings that are available with OS X