June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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Terminal Settings
Synopsis
This section offers advice on how to configure the settings for the Terminal application (also covered in Chapter 20). To configure the Terminal’s settings, you need to have an open Terminal window, and then select File→Show Info. You’ll then use the pop-up menu at the top of the Terminal Inspector window.
- Change the style of the cursor?
Display→Cursor Style→(Block, Underline, Vertical Bar)
- Stop the cursor from blinking?
Display→Cursor Style→deselect the checkbox next to Blink
- Change the background color and font colors of the Terminal window?
Color→click on the color selection boxes next to Cursor, Normal Text, Selection, and Bold Text to open another window with the color wheel. To change the background color of the Terminal window, select the color selection box next to “Use this background color”.
- Assign a different title to the Terminal window?
Window→enter a name for the window in the Title text field
- Assign a different title to the current Terminal window?
With an open Terminal window, select File→Set Title (Shift-
-T). The Terminal Inspector window opens with
Window selected in the pull-down menu. Enter a new title for the
window in the Title field, and hit Return or Tab to change the title
of the current window.- Specify the number of lines a Terminal window can contain in the scrollback buffer?
Buffer→Buffer Size. You can either specify a number of lines ...
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