Split button in Terminal.app

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1511880
As stated in this post, I want the split button back in terminal.app

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I used my OS X install CD and Pacifist to grab Terminal.app, but when I click on Terminal I get "You can't open the application 'Terminal' because it is not supported on this architecture".
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How to permanently save the color settings in terminal.app

Hi,
I have configured the "ls" command in the terminal.app to give colored outputs. However, I realised that for some reason the color-set used is designed for a light-colored background. When I use "white on black", the default blue color of the directories is almost invisible.
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Hi Nils,
Thanks for the replies.
I think I see what the problem is: basically the colors in the terminal are darker than that of the xterm in X11. This can be clearly seen from the vim. May be this is to do with the fact that apple terminal.app has a "better" color support?
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Lianheng

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Terminal.app gone or deleted

Hello guys,
I lost (or deleted) my terminal.app.
does any1 knows were i can download it?

You cannot download it, but you can reinstall it from your Leopard DVD:
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I tried to use the font Inconsolata (downloadable from http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) with the terminal.app. Prior to the update to snow leopard everything was alright. But now this font doesn't render anymore in the terminal.app (although it worked once till the next restart also under snow leopard!). Strange thing is, the font works absolutely normal in all other apps (e.g. macvim oder texteditor). So the font seems to be ok. But why does the font not work any more in the terminal.app? Is there a special font-cache for the terminal? I already tried to delete the user and the system font cache.
A picture might help to understand the problem:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11881979/Bildschirmfoto%202010-09-27%20um%2021.54.47.png
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That is very strange. OpenType was the format that had the least issues as Apple worked out the early bugs in the complete 64 bit rewrite of the font engine in Snow Leopard. Type 1 PostScript was where the majority of the trouble was.
As I noted above, I had no trouble with the font, so can only assume there's some sort of issue with your system. At least the TrueType version works.
The only thing not done was reinstalling the OS. If you want to take the time to try that, back up the drive and run the OS X installer from the desktop. That will put a fresh copy of OS X on the drive while keeping all of your third party apps, preferences and such intact. Then apply all available updates.

Dragging tabs from one Terminal.app window to another

In Safari, you can drag a tab off and "tear" it off from one window to another. Is there a way to make that work in Terminal.app? It doesn't seem to work on my end with Leopard OS X 10.5.5.

g-pod wrote:
That worked, thanks! I see what happened now. I tried to detach the tab by dragging the tab upward instead of downward, but didn't drag it up far enough for detachment.
I discovered the "bug" with Safari - about dragging "up."
I used the two tab example because it works more easily. But dragging "up" works even when the target terminal has no tab. It's a cool thing
I suspect that the tab portion of termina (or Safari) only opens when "attacked" from below.

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I use the Terminal.app to log into a Linux machine. I usually open up multiple tabs per window, and I run emacs in some of the terminal window. The problem is that when I resize the windows, often the window can not remember what size it's supposed to be, and sometimes switching from one tab to another triggers the window to resize to previous dimensions. It's particularly annoying when I start emacs in a tab that's confused in this way, because the window width that emacs thinks it is is incorrect, so emacs can not format the display properly. If I manually resize the window with emacs running, it snaps into place, but then the other tab gets confused.
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You could try iterm or iterm2
<http://iterm.sourceforge.net/>
<http://www.iterm2.com/>
You can always ssh -Y (or ssh -X) into your Linux system and export xterm's back to your Mac (although I'm not personally a fan of xterm, some people like it).
And of course there is always the gui version of emacs and have it export its X11 windows back to your Mac.
NOTE: I am not an emacs user, so anything I say about emacs is based on things I read on the intertubes :-)
You could VNC to your Linux box (although that generally speaking requires a rather fast network corrected to be anywhere usable for an editing session), also the build-in Mac OS X VNC client (Screen Sharing) does not always play nice outside the Mac family, so you should consider alternative VNC clients, such as Chicken (formally Chicken of the VNC), JollysFastVNC, tightvnc (via MacPorts.org), to name a few.
Finally, if you feel there is a real bug in Terminal that needs to be addressed, please file a bug report with Apple so they will have a chance to see and maybe fix it
BugReporter
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Terminal.app won't return window to default size with open tab

I regularly have multiple Terminal.app windows open with multiple tabs open in them. If I have a window open with no tabs, I can drag scale the window to whatever size is convenient for me at the moment, then use the Window > Return to Default Size function to make it go back to my default size configured in the app preferences.
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I would solve the problem by resizing after closing the added tab. However, your inquiry is really beyond my abilities. Questions do get answered in these forums; sometimes not, in which case resorting to Apple Support _may_ resolve the issue. Have you checked out posting under "Mac OS X Technologies"? I believe there are Unix sections to that forum. Good luck.

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TXLogic
I cannot do it either.
Ah, interesting -- thanks for the input. I had thought the problem might have something to do with the fact that I was using an Intel iMac, but you are using a PPC iBook. The problem isn't with 10.4.6 either, as that is what I'm running on my G4 Powerbook, and the .term files work as expected on that machine.
Initially I thought it was a
problem with permissions, i.e the term file hadn't
the execute bit set (which it did not). Setting the x
bit though did not help at all.
Right, the .term files aren't executable.
A work around was to
save the command(s) into a plain text document in
text edit (not rtf) as a .command file (no txt
extension in this case) and set its execute bit in
terminal (sudo chmod u+x ...).
I don't quite understand the workaround -- what command(s) exactly did you put into the .command file? Could you paste the contents of such a file here?
I have not dealt with term files extensively but I
noticed that .term files are xml ones. Could anyone
shed some light in possible changes in the way
terminal handles them?
Since the .term files work as desired on my Powerbook, it now doesn't appear that Terminal.app has changed its processing of the files. Something else is going on here.
txlogic

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