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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