Multiple Terminal instances

[casperes1996]

Hey guys! You know how Mac apps are usually just one instance at a time, right? Well usually, to bypass this you need to use the Terminal... Problem is that my Terminal app is beachballing and I want to open another instance of Terminal, to kill the htop process it's beachballing at. Any way to do this without access to the Terminal?

 

[casperes1996]

I force-closed the Terminal and now it won't open at all

 

[h9826790]

reboot, nil help?

 

[casperes1996]

reboot, nil help?

Rebooting certainly did help, but I'd like to know of other ways of potentialy fixing this issue, in case it occours to something I don't want to restart, like a web server.
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Rebooting certainly did help, but I'd like to know of other ways of potentialy fixing this issue, in case it occours to something I don't want to restart, like a web server.

Actually, I think I just thought of a solution for my own issue. There's an XTerm app in X Quartz that I could try and use to restart the crashing Terminal window next time.

 

[HenryAZ]

iTerm (free) allows multiple windows open. I keep 4 iTerm windows plus one Terminal window open at all times, across 5 desktops.

 

[casperes1996]

iTerm (free) allows multiple windows open. I keep 4 iTerm windows plus one Terminal window open at all times, across 5 desktops.

Terminal also allows more windows, but the entire app had crashed. An alternative Terminal app like iTerm could've worked though. As well as my already install XTerm. Good to know for future occurrences

 

[Nermal]

I'm not all that familiar with the underlying processes but could you have used Activity Monitor to terminate it?

 

[casperes1996]

I'm not all that familiar with the underlying processes but could you have used Activity Monitor to terminate it?

Yes, but I didn't want to terminate Terminal. I wanted to terminate htop. Altherough htop should show up in Activity Monitor, it for some reason didn't. But a good suggestion

 

[Intell]

Make sure you have Activity Monitor set to show all process, not just my processes. If you've started the process with sudo, you'll have to look for sudo in Activity Monitor and kill that.

 

[casperes1996]

Make sure you have Activity Monitor set to show all process, not just my processes. If you've started the process with sudo, you'll have to look for sudo in Activity Monitor and kill that.

I had indeed done both and couldn't find it at all, very weird.

 

[Bart Kela]

Is there a way of accessing the terminal via Xcode? Sorry, I'm not a programmer, I've never used Xcode so I'm not aware of its capabilities.

Another option would be to open a shell window in Emacs if you have that running. I know you can get a shell in Emacs.

 

[casperes1996]

Another option would be to open a shell window in Emacs if you have that running. I know you can get a shell in Emacs.

I've realised at this point that there were quite a few options for me, I just didn't think enough about it