khiscott/visor

Quake-style terminal for MacOS X (Terminal.app SIMBL)

Visor by BlackTree

Visor for OSX provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hot-key, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.

This fork specifically is for people who want to be running visor from login without having the Terminal show up in the Dock.

It assumes 3 things:

1. You have a copy of Leopard's Terminal.app called VTerminal

2. You've changed VTerminal.app/Contents/Info.plist to have a CFBundleIdentifier key with value of com.apple.VTerminal

3. Also you've added a LSUIElement key with the value of TRUE to VTerminal.app/Contents/Info.plist

Now if you add VTerminal.app to your startup items it will behave slightly different than the standard Terminal.app with Visor.

1.It will automatically hide the visor window on first run (useful for an uncluttered login/startup)

2.If you send an exit command to the Visor window, a new one will be created once the old one closes for further Visor use

NOTES: To get to application controls without the menu or Dock items present, simply activate Visor and then enter key commands (such as command+N for a New Window, command+T for a New Tab, command+, for the Preferences, or command+Q to Quit).

KNOWN ISSUE: The first invocation of Visor after launch does not give focus to visor and if you try to create a new tab, a new window is created with that tab. Once this window is closed tabs are created in the visor window as normal.

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