This article was updated on March 2020 for iterm2 version 3.3.9
ITerm.app has come a long way since it was released more than a year ago. We have spent considerable amount of time adding features, fixing bugs, and making it faster and more robust. We believe we have a great relationship with the user community and respond quickly to their bug reports and feature requests. Apr 07, 2020 Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal, supporting 24-bit color, standard graphics protocols and iTerm2 image sequences and color schemes. Written by Kevin Grant. Version 5.0 alpha (macOS 10.15+) in development, currently only available by building from GitHub. ITerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. ITerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
Switching to new operating system comes with lots of nostalgic and uneasy feelings. Looking for similar experiences in new OS is quite common.
Dropdown terminal is one of the application developers switching from linux to macos miss the most. Though guake does not work with mac, Iterm2 can be configured to setup as dropdown terminal.
Installation
Installing iterm2 is quite easy, you just need to visit their site and click download button, unzip and run.
Configure iterm2 as dropdown terminal
Configuring iterm2 as dropdown terminal is really easy as you just need to assign a hotkey to open iterm.
Following are the steps you need to follow:
Go to iterm2 preference
Assuming you are now running iterm2; on the top left you will see iterm2 written just beside apple logo, click there and go to preference.
Click on Profiles tab, and then select keys tab inside profiles
Create a dedicated hotkey window
On the right bottom of this window you will see a botton that says Configure hotkey window.Click on that and you will see a new window where you can configure hotkey(shortcut) for dropdown terminal.
Assign hotkey
(On a newly opened window)
Click on input box on the side of HotKey and then click the combination you want to assign to open iterm2. My combination is CRTL-~.
That’s it, now you can open drop down terminal with shortcut you assigned in last step. In my case it is CRTL+~.
Setup iterm2 to start when your mac starts
Goto System Preferences > User and groups > Login Items.
Drag and drop iterm from applications folders to login items.
Setup iterm2 to float over full screen apps (optional)
By default, iterm switches your workspace when you try to open it from full screen apps.You can setup iterm to float over full screen apps with following steps:
Enable the ‘Hide iTerm2 from the Dock…’ option from the Advanced menu in preferences
Preference -> Advanced -> Hide iTerm2 from the dock … => set to Yes
Configure your profile for all spaces:
Under preference -> profile -> window -> space : set to all spaces.
Restart Guake
After restarting you should be able to use iterm also from full screen apps.
Did this work for you? Please leave your comments below.
References:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30850430/iterm2-hide-show-like-guakehttp://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48796/iterm-as-a-slide-out-terminal-from-the-top-of-the-screenhttps://superuser.com/a/1149772
Safari User Guide
Download music, PDFs, software, and other items by clicking links on webpages.
Important: If a download contains software, an alert appears when you open the item. To be safe, don’t open it if you weren’t expecting a software program or if it’s not from a trusted source.
Download an item
In the Safari app on your Mac, click anything identified as a download link, or Control-click an image or other object on the page.
Choose Download Linked File. (Some webpage items can’t be downloaded.)
Safari decompresses files such as .zip files after it downloads them.
Note: If you download an item that you previously downloaded, Safari removes the older duplicate so it doesn’t take up space on your Mac. See Optimize storage space on your Mac.
See items you downloaded
In the Safari app on your Mac, click the Show Downloads button near the top-right corner of the Safari window.
The button isn’t shown if the downloads list is empty.
Do any of the following:
Pause a download: Click the Stop button to the right of the filename in the downloads list. To resume, click the Resume button .
Find a downloaded item on your Mac: Click the magnifying glass next to the filename in the downloads list. If you move a file or change the download location after downloading it, Safari can’t find the file.
Tip: To change where downloaded items are saved on your Mac, choose Safari > Preferences, click General, then click the “File download location” pop-up menu and choose a location.
Clear the downloads list: In the downloads list, click Clear. To remove one item, Control-click it, then choose Remove From List.
By default, Safari automatically removes an item after one day. To change when items are automatically removed, choose Safari > Preferences, click General, then click the “Remove download list items” pop-up menu and choose an option.