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Usage

To open and close terminals

To open a new terminal window

Choose FileOpen Terminal (or right-click the terminal window and choose Open Terminal).

The new terminal inherits the working directory from its parent terminal.

To close a terminal window

Choose FileClose Window. This action closes the terminal and terminates any subprocesses that you opened from the terminal. If you close the last terminal window, the Terminal application exits.

To add a new tabbed terminal to a window

Choose FileOpen Tab (or right-click the terminal window and choose Open Tab). The new terminal inherits the working directory from the previously active terminal.

To modify a terminal window

To hide the menubar

Choose ViewShow Menubar (or right-click the terminal window and choose Show Menubar).

To show a hidden menubar

Right-click the terminal window and choose Show Menubar from the popup menu.

To show or hide the toolbars

Choose ViewShow Toolbars.

To customize the toolbars

Be sure to show the toolbars first; then choose EditToolbars....

To show or hide the window decorations

Choose ViewShow Window Borders.

To put a terminal window into fullscreen

Choose ViewFullscreen from the menubar (or right-click the terminal window and choose Fullscreen).

To change the appearance of the terminal window

See the section called Preferences for information about the options that you choose in the Terminal Preferences dialog to change the appearance and behaviour of the terminal windows. For example, you can change the background color or the location of the scrollbar.

To work with the contents of terminal windows

To scroll through previous commands and output

Perform one of the following actions

  • Use the scrollbar, which is usually displayed on the right side of each terminal window.
  • Press the Shift-Page Up, Shift-Page Down, Shift-Up, Shift-Down, Shift-Home, or Shift+End} keys.
  • Use the middle wheel button on your mouse if applicable.

Terminal mimics the FreeBSD console when Scroll Lock is pressed. When scroll lock is active, ordinary input and output from the shell is suspended and you can scroll through the history with Shift-Page Up and Shift-Page Down or using the optional scrollbar. Press Ctrl-S to activate the scroll lock and Ctrl-Q to disable it afterwards. The number of lines that you can scroll back in the terminal window is determined by the Scrollback setting in the General section of the Terminal Preferences dialog.

To select and copy text

You can select text in any of the following ways:

  • To select a character at a time, click on the first character that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last character that you want to select.
  • To select a word at a time, double-click on the first word that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last word that you want to select.
  • To select a line at a time, triple-click on the first line that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last line that you want to select.

These actions select all text between the first and last items. For all text selections, Terminal copies the selected text into the clipboard when you release the mouse button. To explicitly copy the selected text, choose EditCopy.

To paste text into a terminal

If you previously copied text to the clipboard, you can paste the text into a terminal by performing one of the following actions: