# iTerm Project Homepage

iTerm Info:

- Home
- Configure Panel
- Contextual Menu
- Installation
- Misc
- Preferences
- Scripting
- System Requirements
- Version History
- Additional Resources

Links:

iTerm (sourceforge project page)
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Introduction:

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support. iTerm was merged from two projects, CTerminal and TerminalX, both of which were based on JTerminal project. The current version is still in beta stage. It is however very much functional and usable.

Features:

- Native Cocoa application.

- Native OS X user interface
- Support of Applescript
- Transparent windows and custom background pictures

- Complete VT100 emulation, with additional support for most common xterm and ANSI escape sequences.

- Custom key-mapping
- Supports select-to-copy and mid-button paste
- Supports focus follow mouse
- Supports xterm titling sequence to change tab label
- Supports ANSI 16 colors, which are also fully customizable

- Multi-tab within one window.

- Tabs can be drag and drop within and between windows. Tabs can also be detached to a separate window.
- Tab labels can change color to indicate the session activiies
- You can send keyboard input to multiple tabs

- Bookmarks for storing settings of most used sessions
- Anti-idle function that avoids disconnection because of no activity
- Universal Binary that runs natively on both PPC and Intel Macs.
- Supports all language encodings that are available with OS X

- User can specify a second font to display non-latin characters to achieve best look
- Supports double-width characters, as used in eastern Asia languages
- Localized user interface for:

- Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean

What's new
0.8.2 released 2/18/2006
iTerm is now a universal binary application! The new version also addresses many bugs in the last version. We strongly encourage everybody who uses 0.8.1 to upgrade.

- Now a Universal Binary application, iTerm runs on Intel Macs natively.
- Added support of xterm mouse reporting, code provided by Geoff Reedy.
- Removed bouncing icon feature.
- Some speed improvements.
- Fixed "can't save settings" bug in 10.4.
- Fixed "find" function.
- Fixed "appending of spaces" bug.
- Fixed bugs of some mouse related actions.
- Other bug fixes and GUI adjustments as usual.

Notice:

Due a change of bookmark organizations introduced in 0.8.0, old bookmark settings are no longer completely recognized. Only names, commands, directories, and shortcuts are migrated. Display and terminal settings are not migrated. You have to re-enter these manually into the new version.

Version 0.8.0 comes with few keymapping/display/terminal profiles. If you do not see them, please delete your iTerm.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences and restart the program.

Modified: April 13, 2004
Created: Dec 18th, 2002
Fabian and Ujwal S. Setlur
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