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I use control+space for my hotkey combo, because it’s easy to hit with one hand, and it’s right next to my Alfred app hotkey. Use “click to set” the Hotkey, then hit your desired key combo.

Now, click the button labeled “Configure Hotkey Window…”.

While you’re in the Keys section, check the box in the “Hotkey Window” section.

Go to the Keys section of the Profiles tab.

Anyway, for now we will simply set up a single profile to have a Hotkey window. You could even use a completely different style of terminal based on what type of work you were doing, if you really live in the terminal. This may seem complicated at first, but it’s useful in that it allows you to experiment with different setups.

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Something quirky about iTerm2 is that it has overall settings plus “Profiles” which you can set up with different collections of settings – you can reconfigure every setting for each profile. Since you’ll be opening up the settings a lot while you set things up, remember that you can access Preferences with the shortcut command+. That’s partly why I’m writing this guide).

Open the iTerm2 Preferences (It has a lot of settings, so in the past, setting it up on new computers has taken me some time to figure out again.

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Download iTerm2, unzip it, move it to your applications folder, and right-click to open it.

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How to get iTerm and set up the “Hotkey Window” With a hotkey window, I have a convenient terminal always at the ready, without worrying about switching my current space to enter a quick command.

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I love using multiple macOS spaces while I work, often using a web browser in one space, a code editor in another, and visual design tools in more spaces. It’s super-customizable, and even though Hyper terminal is more trendy these days, the hotkey window in iTerm2 works so much more smoothly than anything else I’ve tried. The secret is iTerm2, “a terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things,” according to its website. If they use the terminal a lot but haven’t seen or tried the “hotkey window” in a terminal before, they sometimes react with, “ wait – what the heck was that?” I remember when I first had that reaction, too, and I was glad when someone showed me how to look and feel like an elite hacker. Your profile may be named something different but the key will be in the same place.Occasionally, I’ll be talking with someone as I’m on my computer, and I pull up my terminal to enter a git command or something similar. Open gconf-editor and browse to apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Profile1/cursor_blink_mode and set the value to “off”. One last optional step if you don’t want a blinking cursor in your new terminal. If you need to close the embedded terminal type the command “exit” (without quotes).

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Note: although this terminal is “below” all open windows it is still “above” your desktop icons so make sure you move them out of the way. Now you should be able to press Alt+F2 and type in gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=embedded-HTG-term and you should get a terminal window embedded on your desktop background. 500×500 will put the top left corner of your window 500 pixels from the top and 500 pixels from the left of your screen.) If you do not like your window placement you can always hold Alt and drag the window to a new location with the left mouse button. Your window position will be based on where you want the top left corner of your window to be (eg. Note: Window placement starts in the top left corner of your screen with 0,0 and counts up to the bottom right corner. Next go to your Compiz Configuration Manager and activate these plugins if they are not already activated: regex matching, window decoration, window rules, and place windows. Transparent Background: On, Move the slider to whatever level lets you easily see the text on your desktop wallpaper.

When terminal commands set their own title: Keep initial titleĬolor scheme: Black on white will only show black text on your desktop but you can pick whatever will match your theme/background. In the profile settings window that comes up change these settings for the new profile we just created. We will name the window embedded-HTG-term for this example but you can name it whatever you want. It is very important to name this profile something unique because the window name is how we are going to identify the window to embed it.

To do this open your terminal and then go to File -> New Profile. The first step is set up a new terminal profile.