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Today I’ve looked at #iTerm2 on my Mac. Some really nice features! Think I will switch from #terminal to this.

One thing I’m searching for ever: A window/tab specific history of commands with cursor-up? iTerm2 has no solution to that, right? Or I haven’t found the switch yet 🤔

With #iTerm2 on #macos, is there a way to change the behaviour of ⌘+ and ⌘- (zoom in/out) … particularly when I have multiple tabs open, I'd like it to resize the text within the open window but not resize that window?

#iTerm2 looks pretty nice. #mac #macos #terminal #shell

RE: https://masto.ahlcode.fi/@nicd/116559810185737619

Coming back to this, I have several CPU spins going on all the time:

* iTerm2 10–35%, disabling transparency doesn't help. There's just 3 tmux tabs doing nothing there.
* Spotlight 20–70%, the usual suspect.
* WindowServer 10–70%.
* Mail.app ~20%.

Once again HW engineers have provided great battery life that SW engineers try to destroy as much as they can.

#iTerm2 #macOS

Someone here posted about the #Starship prompt for the terminal once. I liked it a lot and decided to try. Then I found out #iTerm2 - a better terminal emulator. Then there were themes, color schemes, and finally, I discovered #Fish shell.

I now want to spend more time in my terminal than in UI.

Starship prompt: https://starship.rs
Fish shell: https://fishshell.com
iTerm2: https://iterm2.com

#terminalEmulator #FishShell #StarshipPrompt #terminal #console #homelab

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/04/22/12997/%e7%9b%b4%e6%8e%a5%e9%80%8f%e9%81%8e%e4%b8%8a%e6%b8%b8%e7%9a%84-security-patch-%e7%94%9f%e6%95%b4%e5%a5%97-exploit-%e5%87%ba%e4%be%86/

直接透過上游的 security patch 生整套 exploit 出來

#arbitrary #code #execution #exploit #iterm2 #patch #security

@bontchev seriously #iterm2 is notorious for this, every time someone pokes a stick at it, something like this falls out. same back a few years ago when the company i consult for occasionally, i was like, what attack surface can be there in a terminal, turns out with iterm2 it is huge! it downloads, it opens, it parses, it does all kind of things. it's horrible if you care for attack surface minimization.

At the same time, managing three Macs is becoming a bit burdensome.

After 15 years, I switched away from #iTerm2 and towards #WezTerm which allows hot-reloaded dotfiles-style configuration.

Together with #GnuStow, a simple `git pull` is enough, and the terminal is in sync!

Really love this, and feel like more apps should offer this kind of configuration (at least developer tools). Synchronizing plist preferences is a pain.

What are some good terminal apps for MacOS? I need to quit #iTerm2. Not only does it have AI slop features, but it's being built with AI slop too. #FuckAI

Had major issues with #ClaudeCode for weeks, with mouse positions not registering correctly, semi-auto scrolling, weird selecting etc.

Turns out it was #Ghostty. No issues in either Terminal or #iTerm2.

Back to iTerm2, then.

Why I finally traded iTerm2’s features for Ghostty’s GPU renderer

https://techlife.blog/posts/why-i-finally-traded-iterm2s-features-for-ghosttys-gpu-renderer/

#Ghostty #iTerm2 #TerminalEmulator #MacOS #DeveloperTools #Migration #Productivity

I just discovered that you can drag n drop images rendered in #iTerm2 using #sixel. If you drag the image out of the terminal you get a file. If you then cat the file ... well, I was expecting an image, because sixel, but apparently not. How odd.

@gregoa_ Oh thank!💡I just checked that with my emulator #iTerm2 and with a modifier key I can also click links. Amazing! Except that I cannot handle those massive multi-line links (that the university IT creates running the embedded links through some kind of anti-phishing checker *sigh*). Because of the hard line breaks instead of soft wrapping in mutt, the links terminate after the first line.

#iTerm2 / #fish shell users, what is this awful iTerm2 feature and how do I kill it with fire? I just upgraded my fish shell and now I get this junk in iterm2 and I don't know even what the popup feature is _called_ much less how to kill it.

One Open-source Project Daily

Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa

#1ospd #opensource #ansi #cli #graphics #graphicslibrary #imageprocessing #imageviewer #images #iterm2 #kitty #powershell #sixel #terminal #terminalbased #terminalgraphics

Ran into a weird issue with macOS and iTerm 2 while experimenting with #talos over the weekend.

Short version: I had to quit iTerm, reset the local network security permission for it and restart it before I could run talosctl from my a session in iTerm. Maddeningly it was working from a session in Terminal.app

The long version is at https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/weird-shit-is-afoot-with-macos-and-iterm/

#homelab #iterm2

It was quite annoying I couldn’t use `set-mark` and delete with Backspace in #iterm2, just like I do in #emacs. Normally with #zsh you can only copy the selection. I’ve just found about ZLS widgets, with which apparently I can achieve this functionality and be consistent with my Emacs editing workflow. I’ve made a public gist with the code you need to add to .zshrc, if you, like me, are using backspace to delete selections. https://gist.github.com/varna9000/528829e1bbaccf4745e80f24be145837

Tabs in #iTerm2 look gross under #macOS Tahoe. :apple_inc_rainbow: :terminal:

One Open-source Project Daily

Over 425 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, Ghostty, and many more

https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes

#1ospd #opensource #colorscheme #freebsdvt #iterm #iterm2 #konsole #konsolecolorschemes #lxterminal #osxterminalthemes #putty #puttycolorschemes #schemes #terminal #terminalschemes #terminalthemes #terminator #theme #themes #windowsterminal #xrdb #xresources

#viewinline: A new no-fuss way to visualize your vector data and rasters right in the #terminal: viewinline is a lightweight #Python utility by @Keiko_geo that renders #GeoTIFF-s, #GeoPackage-s, #GeoJSON-s, and #Shapefile-s instantly in #iterm2 (and other compatible terminals).
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/11/04-viewinline/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

🥊 State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions / Jeff Quast

https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/

#iterm2 #extraterm #ghostty #kitty #terminal #vte #libvte

Man kann in #iTerm2 "AI Chat" enablen: "This makes functions available to AI that let it execute commands on your behalf.".

What could possibly go wrong? 🙈

Ich verstehe einfach nicht, warum man sowas haben wollen würde.

I… did a ridiculous thing.

https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/618

#HotDogStand #iTerm #iTerm2 #ghostty

Apparently #macOS 26 has a bug that leads to massive CPU usage and lagginess in apps until you terminate and restart them. The lagginess creeps in over time, until the affected app is restarted again.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/33182#issuecomment-3289846957

I ran into this with #iTerm2 but the issue has been reported already months ago in macOS betas with various apps.

Workaround is to: defaults write -g NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false

You will lose some autofill functionality by doing this, but apps slowing down over time is quite annoying, too.

#Apple quality control leaves things to be desired yet again.

Three different radiuses. Not even Gnome, KDE (or even Windows!) were stupid enough to do that. There was a time, when #Apple made good UIs. #Tahoma is a mess.

Even #iTerm2 now looks ugly.