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Make the terminal (iTerm) on your mac better.
I have been a long time Linux user, I have just switched to mac. When switching new technology or anything on that matter, Looking for similar experiences in new things is quite common.
In my case, the dropdown terminal is one of the things as a developer switching to macOs I missed the most. Something likeguake
does not work with mac.
But Iterm2 can be configured to setup as dropdown terminal, and here is how.
Install iTerm2
You probably have already gone through this step, because let’s face it the default terminal is not good. But incase you haven’t installing iterm2 is quite easy, you just need to visit their site and click download button, unzip and run.
Configure iterm2 as dropdown terminal
Configuring iTerm2 as dropdown terminal is really easy as you just need to assign a hotkey to open iTerm.
Following are the steps you need to follow:
Go to iterm preference
Open iTerm then on the top left you will see iterm2 written just beside apple logo, click there and go to preference.