I’ve had the new version of Mac OS X — 10.6 aka Snow Leopard — installed for a while, but I’ve only just gotten around to tweaking the configuration of Terminal.app.
Previously: Backspace/Delete/Color in the Terminal from June 2008 covers the process I went through to configure Terminal.app for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
Background: Fixing colors in Terminal.app on 10.6 contains all the relevant information on getting SIMBL and TerminalColors installed for Terminal.app, but only if you read the entire post and the entire comment thread which tracks the various updates to SIMBL itself and the 32-bit/64-bit enabled versions of the relevant applications and bundles.
Solution: SIMBL now works on Snow Leopard with both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. The Visor bundle (“a system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key” which started its life at blacktree.com) now contains both TerminalColors and CopyOnSelect and is under active development. And it's handy to have a shell quickly accessible when I need one.
- Download SIMBL (the latest 0.9.x version) and run the package installer.
- mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins
- Download Visor. Unzip Visor.
- mv Visor.bundle ~/Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins
- Quit Terminal. Launch Terminal.
- Choose Terminal > Preferences. Click Visor. Deselect the checkbox labeled Show on Reopen. This will stop the system-wide terminal from being displayed when Terminal is brought into the foreground.
I still use this terminal theme as a starting point for my own custom color scheme.
If you just want to tweak colors sans Visor, try the version of TerminalColours timmfin released. (The download link is in the README on that page.) It includes Snow Leopard fixes, 32-bit and 64-bit support, and works with SIMBL 0.9.x.
Another option is Yoshimasa Niwa's TerminalColoreopard. The 0.2.5 beta works with Snow Leopard, 64-bit, and SIMBL 0.9.x.
