Improve your powerpc Terminal readability and usability

[ltpitt]

Hi all,

I find myself fiddling more and more with the terminal.
Thanks to tiger brew a whole world of possibilities is opened also to our old macs.

Do you have any config / tutorial that can make the Terminal (or iterm 1) look great and be more usable?

I would be happy enough with a solarized dark color theme but if you have more ideas / solutions please share

 

[Amethyst1]

I turn on font smoothing and use Inconsolata as font. Lovely.

 

[ltpitt]

Nice tips, will try those immediately!

Main thing killing me is color scheme, specially at night @_@

 

[Amethyst1]

GitHub - bitfrozen/osx-terminal-solarized: Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) theme for OSX Terminal

Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) theme for OSX Terminal - bitfrozen/osx-terminal-solarized

github.com

Worth checking out but says colours will be off in <10.7.

Here's a Solarized theme for iTerm2 - and iTerm2 for Leopard on PPC.

Iterm Themes - Color Schemes and Themes for Iterm2

Iterm2-color-schemes : Over 325 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, and many more

iterm2colorschemes.com

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2_v2_0-LeopardPPC.zip

 

[ltpitt]

GitHub - bitfrozen/osx-terminal-solarized: Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) theme for OSX Terminal

Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) theme for OSX Terminal - bitfrozen/osx-terminal-solarized

github.com

Worth checking out but says colours will be off in <10.7.

Here's a Solarized theme for iTerm2 - and iTerm2 for Leopard on PPC.

Iterm Themes - Color Schemes and Themes for Iterm2

Iterm2-color-schemes : Over 325 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, and many more

iterm2colorschemes.com

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2_v2_0-LeopardPPC.zip

Hi and thanks!

This is my current quest: have a dark solarized theme (or similar) on 10.4 Terminal app (or iTerm 1).

 

[Amethyst1]

Can iTerm1 import iTerm2 themes? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, I've never used iTerm1.)

 

[ltpitt]

Can iTerm1 import iTerm2 themes? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, I've never used iTerm1.)

Sadly not :/

Also Tiger Terminal.app doesn't support themes.

I am currently investigating in two directions:
Manually customising PS1 in bash_profile or installing other terminals via X11 or brew.

 

[Slix]

Sadly not :/

Also Tiger Terminal.app doesn't support themes.

I am currently investigating in two directions:
Manually customising PS1 in bash_profile or installing other terminals via X11 or brew.

Pretty sure that you can customize the colors of the Terminal window and font in Tiger (and below probably as well). I believe they are called Profiles inside of Terminal Preferences. Is that what you mean?

 

[ltpitt]

Pretty sure that you can customize the colors of the Terminal window and font in Tiger (and below probably as well). I believe they are called Profiles inside of Terminal Preferences. Is that what you mean?

You are right but che choice is limited to...
4 colors or so and zero themes :/

I am close to a solution, I will share it soon.

I went the homebrew / zsh path and I have to say end result is quite nice

 

[Amethyst1]

I am close to a solution, I will share it soon.

Great, looking forward to that. I'm a huge fan of Solarized Dark myself.

 

[2984839]

I turn on font smoothing and use Inconsolata as font. Lovely.

Inconsolata is my favorite font and has been my go-to on every computer I own for years. Great choice.

 

[Amethyst1]

Inconsolata is my favorite font and has been my go-to on every computer I own for years. Great choice.

I've tried many monospaced fonts and occasionally switch to another out of curiosity but Inconsolata is my favourite too.

 

[Slix]

You are right but che choice is limited to...
4 colors or so and zero themes :/

I am close to a solution, I will share it soon.

I went the homebrew / zsh path and I have to say end result is quite nice

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by only a few themes. What exactly are you hoping to modify? Here's a screenshot of Tiger's "Window Settings" screen for Terminal. You can edit colors and background color/image, among other things. It gives some good flexibility I think.

 

[Amethyst1]

@Slix - Compare Tiger's Terminal colour settings to iTerm's: (not my image)

 

[galgot]

Not about colors theming, but you might want to check Visor (was later renamed TotalTerminal) :

Visor

Visor is a system-wide terminal for OSX available on a hot-key

visor.binaryage.com

Its a SIMBL plugin and app that when installed and launched gives the ability to pull down Terminal window (like Guake or Tilda on Linux) form a custom hot-key system wide or from a menu icon. iterm2 also can do this , but works only from 10.5 and up.

Only very early version works on 10.4. Now unavalaible on the site, so here :
SIMBL-0.8.2.zip
SIMBL-0.9.9.zip
Visor.1.2.1.zip
Visor.1.5a1.zip

The lowest Versions nmrs works for 10.4, the other for 10.5. But iTerm2 works on 10.5 anyway...

 

[ltpitt]

Not about colors theming, but you might want to check Visor (was later renamed TotalTerminal) :

Visor

Visor is a system-wide terminal for OSX available on a hot-key

visor.binaryage.com

Its a SIMBL plugin and app that when installed and launched gives the ability to pull down Terminal window (like Guake or Tilda on Linux) form a custom hot-key system wide or from a menu icon. iterm2 also can do this , but works only from 10.5 and up.

Only very early version works on 10.4. Now unavalaible on the site, so here :
SIMBL-0.8.2.zip
SIMBL-0.9.9.zip
Visor.1.2.1.zip
Visor.1.5a1.zip

The lowest Versions nmrs works for 10.4, the other for 10.5. But iTerm2 works on 10.5 anyway...

Woah, this is gold

@Slix

Indeed also Terminal app supports very little customization but it is hellish (no profiles, only xterm-color, no full screen).
For the moment being I am building a cocktail of iTerm profiles and ZSH (with oh my zsh themes which are VERY nice).
I am having a lot of fun!
PowerPc limitations are always challenging