Geek Posted May 25, 2011 Posted May 25, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/full-screen-command-line.jpg" alt="Full Screen Command Line in Mac OS X with iTerm2" title="full-screen-command-line" width="600" height="365" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16423" /></p> <p>Don’t want to wait for the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/23/terminal-in-mac-os-x-lion-gets-full-screen-mode-eye-candy/">full screen Terminal in Mac OS X Lion</a>? Me neither, and we don’t have to thanks to iTerm2. </p> <p>The latest build of iTerm2 features the ability to enter into a true full screen terminal mode. Just launch iTerm2 and hit Command+Return to enter into full screen. One of our readers pointed this out in the comments of the Lion Terminal post, so thanks to nlo for that tip. </p> <p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/downloads/list">Get iTerm2 now from Google Code, it’s a free download</a></p> <p>I would recommend grabbing the latest nightly build, I’ve been using it nonstop now without incident and it seems very stable.</p> <p>Full screen mode is made even better with the ability to set a system wide hot-key to activate the app, this lets you run in full screen but switch between any apps and back into iTerm2 with ease instantly from anywhere. It’s also visually appealing, outside of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/19/termkit-terminal-reimagined-how-to-install/">TermKit project</a> it is easily the most customizable and attractive command line app for Mac OS X. This is partially because the latest iTerm2 includes some of the exact same eye-candy features that also come in Lion’s Terminal.app, most notably the transparent background blur.</p> <p><span id="more-16420"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/full-screen-terminal-blur.jpg" alt="Full Screen iTerm2 Command Line with blur in Mac OS X" title="full-screen-terminal-blur" width="620" height="363" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16425" /></p> <p>The above screenshot shows top running in a blurred transparent window, the below screenshot shows top running in a blurred image window.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/full-screen-command-line-terminal-mac-iterm.jpg" alt="Full Screen Command Line in Mac OS X with iTerm2" title="full-screen-command-line-terminal-mac-iterm" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16421" /></p> <p>We’ve discussed iTerm2 here before, specifically in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/03/split-terminal-mac-iterm2/">it’s ability to split the Terminal window into separate panes</a>, a feature that is lacking in the Mac OS X Terminal.app.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ATub35PNF7FOfWe5dkM0OfQxnJQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ATub35PNF7FOfWe5dkM0OfQxnJQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ATub35PNF7FOfWe5dkM0OfQxnJQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ATub35PNF7FOfWe5dkM0OfQxnJQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=8KUJFDsitZo:IWhAnV0IfVA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/8KUJFDsitZo" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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