Terminal Preferences

Mack heads here. Today I'm gonna be showing you how to use the Preferences function in the Terminal application. This will let you set some very useful things that you might find interesting.

First of all, when Terminal is open in the active application, you press Command Comma or Apple Comma, and the settings window will come up on your screen right here. Normally, it'll be on the settings tab up at the top. You can also click Windows and Groups and Codings Startup. I prefer settings.

Right now, you can see I have a few terminals. Right now, Red Sins, Pro PCs, Ocean Novel are just some of the Linux terminals I have. You can see it says Homebrew is my default. Click Default on any terminal to make that terminal your default. The default is the style of terminal that comes up when you open Terminal.

Now here are some preferences for every individual terminal that you have selected. You can see up here there are a few tabs: Text, Window, Shell, Keyboard, Advanced. These all allow you to set things for the terminal. For instance, I'm going to be demonstrating this to you on Basic, which is the black alloy terminal.

Right now, you can see the text is black. Center selection is blue. The cursor color, window title is Terminal, active process name, TTY name, etcetera. You can check off... This is the stuff that comes up on the terminal text file right here. So right here it says Terminal; that's the thing you set the shell and the size.

Right now, let's get rid of the dimensions. I don't really want that command key. You know, TTY, the process name, man name. Oh yes, settings name. So those are a few things at the window. You can set all the things about text here. With Shell, you can set commands to come up when you start up.

So if you wanted someone to get strict when they open Terminal, it'll just do a halt. You just do like, "Seaweed, do halt," and it'll ask them for you. Alright, whatever you want, and you normally check "Run inside of shell." That's supposed to be checked.

Now here’s just some advanced thing. Visual Bell means that whenever you screw up and you backspace too many times, like let me give you an example; turn—that's the visual bell. So if you check that, that will happen. You can also add a style, and then it's actually a set of settings.

Right now, I have "Hi" right up here, and it looks just like a basic terminal. We can set whatever we want to with that. Right here, this is terminal settings; of course, you can set other things—startup, etc. I'm actually gonna make Homebrew my default.

What else you can do that's really interesting and cool is, when Terminal is already open, you go to the little terminal icon in the dock. Maybe my icon will be bigger. Hold down the little terminal icon for a few seconds until this menu comes up. You go up to New Window, come across here to the side.

See these are all the styles you have, and Homebrew is the cool green one that I normally use. I actually like Grass as well; this is what I use on the root user normally. I set it up so when it starts up, the login program comes up, but that's not a good thing to do actually.

So yeah, that's how to use Terminal Preferences and set settings on Terminal that you'll find very useful. Thanks for watching, Mac heads, and subscribe to our videos right now!