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Visor: Quake Style Terminal

Posted by Jack Cory on 04/07/07 in Applications, Fun & Unique, Utilities 

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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11 Responses to “Visor: Quake Style Terminal”

  1. Visor: Quake Style Terminal at 3motions.net on April 7th, 2007 10:18 am

    [...] Originally from MacApper by Jack Cory reBlogged by Simon Menke on Apr 7, 2007, 3:00PM [...]

  2. niepi on April 7th, 2007 11:29 am

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

    i love it

  3. Bruce Anderson on April 7th, 2007 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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  5. evilmunkeh on September 28th, 2007 8:47 pm

    Anyone figure out how to make the Visor transparent?

  6. mimo on October 6th, 2007 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!?

  7. chrish on October 30th, 2007 10:49 am

    Anyone know if this can become a tabbed terminal?

  8. Soft Review » Quake-like drop-down Terminal for OS X! (from creators of QuickSilver) on November 8th, 2007 1:42 pm

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  9. mkio on January 14th, 2008 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.

  10. dean on March 19th, 2008 7:22 am

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

  11. chrish on March 20th, 2008 10:59 am

    huh, and we learn something new everyday…thanks!

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