Additional Resources
Interesting Links
Here are some links to some iTerm related websites.
- Applescripts for executing a command and connecting to a remote server. by Denis A.V. Jr.
- Applescript for opening a session by Damon Parker
- A Growl trick. by Damon Parker
- A collection of iTerm Shell Customizations for bash, zsh and tcsh from William G. Scott
- Use iTerm with OnMyCommand from macosxhints
- Open current directory in iTerm
- iTerm plugin for Quicksilver.
- iTerm Here
- WidgetTerm: A mini terminal in your dash board.
Fonts
Starting from 0.8.0, iTerm no longer requires monospace fonts. For older versions, you need a monospace font for correct display. In Addition, the font should include all the graphical characters if you plan to use curses based programs that use them, such as mc. Unfortunately, there are not many such fonts available. The fonts we tested to work well are listed here. If you have some nice fonts that you can share with us, please feel free to email us.
- VT100 Comes with OS X, rather ugly though
- Lucide Console Comes with Office v.X
- SImPL A very nice font made by Phil Chastney. Download from here
- APL385 Another font from Dyalog.NET. Get it from here
- FreeMono A nice font made available by Free UCS Outline Fonts project. It is bundled with iTerm.app starting from version 0.70. Visit their website .
- Wen Ding Chinese fonts A set of simplified and traditional Chinese fonts. Download from here. Thanks to Miyang Lin for providing us information.
UTF-8 patch for tcsh 6.12.00
By Yuichi OHKAWA
The tcsh pre-installed in Mac OS X has many problems dealing with utf-8. If you input mult-bytes characters to tcsh, this patch may help you to edit the characters.
Download from here
Tips for using zsh with iTerm
Provided by Marius Wyx
There are people with hints on ways to customize the title bar and tabs, a much simpler way when using zsh is to do the following:
precmd () {
echo -n "\033]1;$USERNAME@$HOST^G\033]2;$PWD> - $USERNAME@$HOST
($status)^G"
}
PROMPT='%m %B%3c%(#.#.>)%b '
RPROMPT=''
(NOTE: ^G is CTRL-G, you need to basically enter it using ^V^G)
Much simpler and does not require anything special. (apart from zsh)
Also in zsh, the command line completion I have expanded to be /Applications/ aware:
if [ "`uname`" = "Darwin" ]; then compctl -f -x 'p[2]' -s "`/bin/ls -d1 /Applications/*/*.app /Applications/*.app | sed 's|^.*/\([^/]*\)\.app.*|\\1|;s/ /\\\\ /g'`" -- open alias run='open -a' fi
typing: "open -a " and then pressing tab will try and complete any application... (added an alias run as well)