Comments on: Quake Style Drop Down Terminal for Mac

By: Jørgen Tietze

Jørgen Tietze — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Checking up on updates to Visor, I noted the TotalTerminal (version 1.1.4), as postglock did some months ago. Apparently none of the dirty work described here are necessary for making the terminal behave quakeish anymore. Only changing the LSUIElement of the the Terminal.app’s info.plist is needed

By: E-bike

E-bike — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:06:25 +0000

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By: postglock

postglock — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:15:00 +0000

The new version is called TotalTerminal, and these instructions don’t work any more as is. For TotalTerminal 1.0, the references to Terminal.app are kept in TotalTerminal.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt . Create the Terminal.app clone first, then open this script in AppleScript Editor, and change “Terminal” to “VisorTerminal”, or whatever you have named the clone. You also don’t have to worry about injecting SIMBL any more with TotalTerminal.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Where did you apply the change? You have to be in the visor window and press cmd-,. It should bring up the settings window for the visor terminal only.

By: Jeroen Vaelen

Jeroen Vaelen — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:13:00 +0000

Hi, great post, although I am wondering: it is possible to change the visor theme to the white one you have in your picture? And what about font changes? That’s what I am currently struggling with. I can change the normal window settings, but they don’t seem to apply in Visor. Please contact me about this via jeroen dot vaelen at gmail dot com. Thanks!

By: Jeroen Vaelen

Jeroen Vaelen — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:13:00 +0000

By: Jeroen Vaelen

Jeroen Vaelen — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:13:00 +0000

By: Jeroen Vaelen

Jeroen Vaelen — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:13:00 +0000

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:58:51 +0000

Hi,
great instructions! Thanks for reposting this! I had a few corrections, some of which may have been brought about by new versions.

Step 3: The preference is actually named “SIMBLTargetApplications > Item 0 > BundleIdentifier”

Step 4: The preference is now “Bundle Identifier”

Step 6 is redundant given that you’ll have to cancel this at a later stage to run the Applescript instead.

Step 7: Property List Editor.app will automatically change the key to “Application is agent (UIElement)”, which will be forced to be boolean. I guess this is the new nomenclature. Anyway, just tick this box.

You can also change Visor preferences by clicking on the menubar icon, if you activated this.

By: xiao

xiao — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:05:12 +0000

Yup, good point Jørgen
Changed

By: Jørgen Tietze

Jørgen Tietze — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:26:47 +0000

5. [...] You won’t be able to change any preferences anymore after performing the ensuing steps so change you Terminal to suit your tastings as well such as setting transparency.

You can just use the keyboard-shortcut apple-, for opening the preferences. You’re also able to make new windows of the “traditional” kind with apple-n.

By: Oliver Bestwalter

Oliver Bestwalter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:28:29 +0000

Thank you – finally I have m yakuake replacement for the Mac .

Your tips did not work right out of the box though. So let me point out what I had to change to make it work:

1. Step 7: String not number type for LSUIElement

LSUIElement
1

2. Step 8: tell application “VisorTerminal” – not “UserTerminal”

3. I don’t know if this was really necessary, but I changed a few more strings from terminal to VisorTerminal in the plists of Visor.bundle and VisorTerminal (like suggested here: http://www.metaskills.net/2009/8/18/visor-terminal-on-snow-leopard)

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