Chapter 5. Terminal

Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/terminal/

Terminal is a terminal emulator. And it offers services through unix commands.

Figure 5.1. Terminal

Terminal

Preferences

Note

Remember to click "Apply and save" to make it effect for next terminal window.

Change the font and color. "Multi-Cell" means in CJK font, a glyph occupies more than one space in terminal. Check it if you use CJK fonts.

Figure 5.2. Terminal: Font Preference

Terminal: Font Preference

Specify the shell to use.

Figure 5.3. Terminal: Shell Preference

Terminal: Shell Preference

Keyboard setting

Figure 5.4. Terminal: Keyboard Preference

Terminal: Keyboard Preference

Behavior of terminal window

Figure 5.5. Terminal: Window Preference

Terminal: Window Preference

Set terminal services. Terminal will provides thiese services to other GNUstep applications. Therefore, it bridges the graphic applications and command-line tools. You can even add your own service.

Figure 5.6. Terminal: Service Preference

Terminal: Service Preference

Change the default encoding. If your encoding is not in the list, your can change the user defaults directly. Use:

defaults write Terminal Linux_CharacterSet <VALUE>

<VALUE> should be the encoding used by iconv.

Figure 5.7. Terminal: Linux Parser Preference

Terminal: Linux Parser Preference