Tilda
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
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Posts tagged with terminal.
Go2Shell
Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
Designed to sit in your Finder toolbar.
stderred
stderred hooks on write() function from libc in order to colorize all stderr output that goes to terminal thus making it distinguishable from stdout. Basically it wraps text that goes to file with descriptor “2” with proper escape codes making text red.
csshx is a tool to allow simultaneous control of multiple SSH sessions. csshX will attempt to create an SSH session to each remote host in separate Terminal.app windows. A master window will also be created. All keyboard input in the master will be sent to all the slave windows.
Thanks, Ben
DTerm
DTerm provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you’re working with and then use the results of those commands. Command line work isn’t a separate task that should live on its own—it’s an integrated part of your natural workflow.
Free on the Mac App Store.
TotalTerminal
mosx:
“A system-wide terminal available on a hot-key.”
From the TotalFinder guys.
Colours
Reader Bruno got in touch to ask about my terminal colours, so I thought I’d go into far too much detail on the offchance anyone else is interested!
In xterm on Linux or OS X, I use the lovely Inconsolata font and some muted shades I found on the web somewhere many years ago:
The relevant section of my ~/.Xdefaults looks like this:
! Colours *background: rgb:F5/F5/F5 *foreground: rgb:44/44/44 *color0: rgb:00/00/00 *color1: rgb:9e/18/28 *color2: rgb:5c/b2/47 *color3: rgb:96/8a/38 *color4: rgb:41/61/a0 *color5: rgb:9b/76/8e *color6: rgb:41/91/89 *color7: rgb:ee/ea/ea *color8: rgb:66/66/66 *color9: rgb:cf/61/71 *color10: rgb:c5/a7/79 *color11: rgb:ff/f7/96 *color12: rgb:41/86/be *color13: rgb:cf/9e/be *color14: rgb:71/be/be *color15: rgb:dd/dd/dd
If I’m in a TTY I use some colours stolen from jwr’s informative post, Vim colours in the console and the Terminus font:
These are set in my ~/.zshrc, like so:
if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
echo -en "\e]P0000000" #black
echo -en "\e]P83d3d3d" #darkgrey
echo -en "\e]P18c4665" #darkred
echo -en "\e]P9bf4d80" #red
echo -en "\e]P2287373" #darkgreen
echo -en "\e]PA53a6a6" #green
echo -en "\e]P37c7c99" #brown
echo -en "\e]PB9e9ecb" #yellow
echo -en "\e]P4395573" #darkblue
echo -en "\e]PC477ab3" #blue
echo -en "\e]P55e468c" #darkmagenta
echo -en "\e]PD7e62b3" #magenta
echo -en "\e]P631658c" #darkcyan
echo -en "\e]PE6096bf" #cyan
echo -en "\e]P7899ca1" #lightgrey
echo -en "\e]PFc0c0c0" #white
clear
fi
Finally, in iTerm, I go with the rather more dayglo ‘Light Background’ defaults:
!something:p
A handy command line titbit:
!something
will issue the last command that matches “something”.
If your short term memory is as bad as mine, this can be a bit dangerous. So I always do
!something:p
first, which prints the last matching command without running it.
See also
This works in bash, tcsh, and zsh; I’m not sure about other shells.
iTerm2
A fork of the OS X terminal application with improved bookmarking and a split screen view.
termcolor
A handy web app that helps you generate terminal themes.
byobu
Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.
I’m a tmux man myself, but this set of scripts look to make screen much friendlier to new users.
PuTTYtray
Another portable variant of PuTTY, designed to sit in your system tray.
Thanks, skelly
