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Visor: Quake Style Terminal

Ever thought that there would be a better way to manage your Terminal.app? Well now there is, Visor. Which is a small add-on for the terminal from the creators of Quicksilver that lets you get a Quake style window that is activated with a command (command + e is what I use). Visor can be very useful with keeping an uncluttered desktop and accessing a terminal with a small keystroke. Being a constant user of terminal for accessing my home file server, at times alt-tab or Exposé can become quite redundant.

Visor can do everything a normal terminal can and then some. One of the most useful features would have to be drag and drop. So if your friend sends you some bash code or anything of the sort, just start to drag then hit your keystroke to activate Visor and drop it right in. For the most part Visor is quite flawless, but there are some things you must to in order to get it run. The Terminal must be running for Visor to be triggered. Also you must install SIMBL, which might be a little confusing, but there is a nice howto on the Visor page. Just like some other people have said, If Visor were stand alone and did not require a plugin, it would be just right.

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    niepi said on

    April 7th, 2007 at 11:29 am

    my hotkey is F13 and i use it all the time.

    i love it

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    Bruce Anderson said on

    April 7th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    I love it, but I don’t like the fact that I have to keep Terminal open all the time to use it. I wish Visor could launch Terminal when it’s invoked.

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    evilmunkeh said on

    September 28th, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    Anyone figure out how to make the Visor transparent?

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    mimo said on

    October 6th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    @evilmunkeh
    Visor uses the same settings as Terminal.app. So just set your Terminal’s default background to a transparent one. Rad, eh!?

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    chrish said on

    October 30th, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Anyone know if this can become a tabbed terminal?

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    mkio said on

    January 14th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Is it possible to get Terminal to be the active program when Visor’s hotkey is pressed?

    Now when I press the hotkey, Visor does come up but if I want to write something to the terminal window first I’ll have to select Terminal to be the active program.

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    dean said on

    March 19th, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Visor does support tabbed terminals. Just press Apple + T for new tab.

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    chrish said on

    March 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am

    huh, and we learn something new everyday…thanks!

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