Comments on: Alternatives to terminal.app on mac OSX

By: mark h

mark h — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:43:37 +0000

you can use kconsole on osx.. install it using fink

By: JetteroHeller

JetteroHeller — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:00:00 +0000

I was hoping that you were going to come up with a better alternative than Terminal! I spend most of my time on a Linux workstation with KDE4’s great Konsole app, and am so used to being able to deal with split screens and tabs, that it just hurts having to work on the Mac, which is my laptop.

Man, do I wish there was a way to run either konsole or gnome-terminal under OSX!

By: Tim Hunter

Tim Hunter — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:54:23 +0000

How can you stand the lack of copy-on-select with Terminal? It’s driven me to iTerm, which is driving me nuts with intermittent crashing and allowing me to accidentally quit with command-Q.

By: Matt Rozz

Matt Rozz — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:03:56 +0000

I am a Linux -> Mac user, so I’m in search of less “pretty” and more “function” in most apps. I love the whole Mac experience, but the keyboard configuration, along with the lack of ability to change it, is driving me nutz.

I am completely satisfied with iTerm. Tabs, keybaord shortcuts work well, and… the “Home” key takes me to the beginning of the command I’m typing!

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:45:21 +0000

@tom: Set terminal prefs so that option(alt) + click will position the cursor. This is found in window setting / Emulation

By: tom

tom — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:08:03 +0000

I’m also using the terminal app but I’m having problems because the terminal app doesn’t seem to support keys like Home or End keys.

How do you deal with these issues?

thanks,
Tom

By: Andreas Schweizer

Andreas Schweizer — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:47:09 +0000

Thanks for this overview of different Terminals. Saved me a lot of time to search all those replacements for Terminal and testing them and finally ending up using Terminal as I already do. One handy helper might be where you can setup different profiles (title, colors, initial command) for each Terminal window. Supports as many profiles as you like and its freeware.

By: CraHan

CraHan — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:58:03 +0000

0.8.2 was released at the beginning of 2006. Sourceforge has it tagged as 2006-02-21 17:22.

By: Chip Seraphine

Chip Seraphine — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:06:42 +0000

I’m using 0.8.2, which was released just a few days ago, on my intel-based MacBook. No performance problems yet!

The only thing I really find myself missing about Terminal is the ability to ’split’ the vertical space so that I can refer to something in my scrollback buffer while typing at the bottom of it. (That’s really handy for complex shell commands, SQL queries, etc.)

By: Khalid Hanif

Khalid Hanif — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:56:20 +0000

Pressing Command + left/right arrows will cycle through all your active Terminal windows – handy if you have several open like I do most times.

Khalid