If the bugs are fixed, and mouse support is added for those programs like emacs which can take advantage of it, I'd seriously consider dropping Terminal entirely for this. iTerm has the potential to be to Terminal what Chimera is to IE.
(WARNING: Some of the antialiased fonts look horrendous in xterm.)įor different colors see the following guide: You get a yellowish background in this instance with an anti-aliased Monaco font. Uxterm -fg black -bg LemonChiffon -fa 'Monaco' -fs 12 -geometry 80x40 -tn xterm-color & But this can easily be changed by modifying the xterm line in the. When you first open X11, you get a really crummy looking terminal.
Iterm2 for mac install#
You'll need to install Apple's X11 package. Lightning fast! No delays at all in redrawing the screen in Mutt. If you're looking for speed in a terminal app, go with xterm (or uxterm for UTF-8 people).
(The messages are stored locally, so the delay is not due to remote access.) In a very unscientific test, I tried iTerm side-by-side with Terminal.app using Mutt and the latter won hands down in redrawing the screen. Likewise, when running the email-client Mutt, there was a noticeable delay when redrawing the screen for each new message. Switching tabs was also surprisingly slow-slower than switching tabs in my favorite web browser Camino. Turning off anti-aliasing helped a bit, but not much. The keys felt very slow, and there was a noticeable delay between typing and screen response. I don't quite understand how an all text program can be less responsive than, say, an image-heavy app such as Preview or Safari. Apart from the annoying transparency issues mentioned in a previous comment here, the biggest problem I encountered was iTerm's speed. In theory the features were very nice-tabbed browsing, full-screen mode, etc.īut in practice, iTerm was intensely frustrating.
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