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MacOS’ default Terminal isn’t exactly difficult to reach (you can find it by navigating to ‘Applications > Utilities > Terminal’).

This opens a ‘Fonts’ window where you can change the font family, typeface and font size.

Select ‘Profiles’ and make sure ‘Default’ is selected.

If you’re struggling to read the Terminal text, then you can change the text size and font family:

To change the colour of the iTerm2 background, select ‘Background’ and then make your selection from the colour picker.

The iTerm2 window updates automatically as you select different colours, so you can immediately see how your changes will look.

To change the text, select the ‘Foreground’ colour and then use the subsequent menu to select a new colour.

In the left-hand menu, select ‘Default.’.

Select ‘iTerm2 > Preferences…’ from the iTerm2 menu bar.

To change the background and/or text colour: You can customise pretty much every part of iTerm2’s appearance, which can make it easier to work with, for example if you’re struggling to read the text then you can increase the text size, change the font or use different colours to increase the contrast between the text and the iTerm2 background. However, there’s lots of functionality hidden beneath the surface, including some features that simply don’t exist in the official Terminal application. Initially, iTerm2 looks pretty similar to the standard Terminal.

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Once you’ve downloaded iTerm2, install and launch it.

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iTerm2 is free to download and use, but if you enjoy using this app then you should consider donating to the developer to help support their work on this project.

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You can also see the way tiling the image works when the window is half size and full size.To try this app for yourself, head over to the iTerm2 website and download the latest version. It’s more pleasing that just a plain black background and some white text. If your background is the same resolution of you monitor or larger, this will prevent the background image from scaling when the window size changes.

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Wheel slightly under the middle line, but it will vary based on your preferences and scheme.Īgain, if for some reason it didn’t update immediately, exit preferences and open up the profileīack in the Preferences and under Profiles, open the Window tab.Ĭlick on the little check box for Background Image to open the window where you can select your background.ĭepending on your background’s resolution, I recommend turing on Tile Image. If you use the color wheel, I recommend keeping the arrow on the bar to the right of the color I used the color wheel, but the color palette tab in the middle The tabs at the top of this window have someĭifferent ways to pick colors. The following window shows up when it’s clicked. Of the two magenta boxes, the one I want is on the left. The colors back on preferences correspond directly to what is seen on screen and this is what Of the colors in the scheme so it becomes a prime candidate for customizing. The bar for me that is pink with the time on it didn’t change and doesn’t quite match the rest

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Will show you how to select a wallpaper instead of having a plain solid color for a background. The background box here is used you want to change your background color, but at the end of the tutorial I In the colors tab in preferences there are some color boxes that change the overallĬolors. Now we should see our colors change! Woo! Profile will be the one available called default. If you didn’t create a profile, then your Select the profile that you are working with. If for some reason it didn’t update immediately, exit preferences and open up the profileĬhooser by hitting ( ⌘ + i ). It should reflect immediately because we are working on the default profile. The theme you choose will then appear in the load presets drop down where you can select it. You canįind a theme put the command in terminal I put earlier: Many as you like, but you don’t need to import all of them. In the little drop down window click import.Ĭhoose the theme that you would like to import. Once you’re in the preferences window, click on the profiles button.Īt the bottom there is a load presets button that will let us import the color themes This can be done either one of two ways:įrom the menu bar under iTerm > Preferences You canĮxit the cycle by hitting ctrl + C when you find one that you want to import. SimplyĪnd it will cycle through the schemes when you push a button on your keyboard. That will let you cycle through all the colors and find one that you like. The creators of the repository were kind enough to include an awesome terminal command

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