Geek Posted May 24, 2011 Posted May 24, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mac-os-x-lion-terminal.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion Terminal" title="mac-os-x-lion-terminal" width="620" height="411" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15075" /></p> <p>Terminal.app is getting a subtle facelift in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> with a couple nice interface changes. </p> <p>First up is the ability to <strong>adjust blur on opaque (transparent) terminal windows</strong>, the effect is done on the fly and anything behind the transparent terminal window gets blurred. The image above shows this with a blurred terminal window placed over the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/02/new-mt-fuji-wallpaper-in-mac-os-x-lion-developer-preview-2/">default Mt Fuji wallpaper</a>. There are several of these theme choices available in the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/02/change-the-appearance-of-terminal-windows-quickly/">Terminal Inspector and appearance settings</a>.</p> <p>Second, is the ability to finally <strong>run Terminal in true full screen mode</strong>. This is actually the result of a system-wide Lion feature that lets you run any app as full screen, but the effect in Terminal.app is great for anyone who likes to work undistracted at the command line. <span id="more-15048"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/lion-full-screen-terminal.jpg" alt="Lion gets a full screen terminal" title="lion-full-screen-terminal" width="574" height="381" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16384" /></p> <p>Full screen Terminal is made even more interesting when combined with some of the new multitouch gestures; a four fingered sideways swipe on a touchpad will smoothly slide between full screen apps and desktops. This screen shot was captured in the middle of one of these transitions:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/swipe-between-fullscreen-terminal.jpg" alt="swipe between full screen Terminal in Mac OS X" title="swipe-between-fullscreen-terminal" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16382" /></p> <p>None of this is as fancy and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/19/termkit-terminal-reimagined-how-to-install/">innovative as something like TermKit</a> but they should be welcome changes to anyone who spends time at the command line. I’ve always wondered why there hasn’t been a full screen option for the Mac OS X terminal, the only way to achieve this outside of Lion is by booting into Single User Mode, which is hardly practical.</p> <p><em>Thanks for the tips SE</em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HrkhQMAIJ9Qjem-c3vBMm5BSiTA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HrkhQMAIJ9Qjem-c3vBMm5BSiTA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HrkhQMAIJ9Qjem-c3vBMm5BSiTA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HrkhQMAIJ9Qjem-c3vBMm5BSiTA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=5D5Dq-qkaas:K-VceYKs5gE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/5D5Dq-qkaas" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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