OSX: Possible to use Total Terminal with iTerm2?

Question

As I understand it, Total Terminal is a thin layer on top of Terminal.app that adds some Yakuake-like features.

My question is: Is it possible to use Total Terminal with iTerm2 as the "backend" instead of Terminal.app?

Solution 1

There is already the functionality, as Phoenix said, so no use for "changing the backend" of TotalTerminal. In iTerm2, just add a new profile with setting Window/Style/top of screen, add a global hotkey for toggling iTerm2 on this specific profile, and you're done.

See: http://technosophos.com/content/configure-iterm2-act-visor

Solution 2

I was just wondering this as well, however iTerm2 has a visor implementation already built in. It's not as nice as totalterminal's ( no animation, or autostart built in ) but it's workable. Going to try it out for awhile and see if I can work out what little kinks I have with it. If you find any tips or tricks let me know

Comments

[user72923]

I'm not seeing the visor implementation built into iTerm2. How do you activate it?

[Karthik T]

Not sure if they added it recently, but I have the animation working in my machine

[GuitarPicker]

This might be better posted as a comment to the accepted answer rather than creating a new one.