. Terminal Preferences If you spend endless hours staring at the Terminal screen, as most Unix junkies do, you'll eventually be grateful for the preference settings that let you control how Terminal looks and acts. In fact, in Leopard's Terminal | . Terminal Preferences If you spend endless hours staring at the Terminal screen as most Unix junkies do you ll eventually be grateful for the preference settings that let you control how Terminal looks and acts. In fact in Leopard s Terminal you can manage your preferences in a whole new way. Instead of having a single set of options saved as with other applications Terminal now manages your options as named settings groups allowing you to quickly apply different settings to different windows at any time using the Inspector window Shell Show Inspector . You can also save the layout of entire groups of windows each with their own settings in effect into a single configuration allowing you to recreate those layouts in an instant. Configure your settings using Terminal s Preferences panel Figure 16-8 which you get to by choosing Terminal Preferences of all places . . Startup The Startup tab lets you configure what Settings or Window group Terminal should use to open in case you want something other than the default . This tab also gives you another way to switch from bash to a different default shell. Where it says Shells open with choose command complete path and then type bin bash for bash or bin tcsh for tcsh. New Terminal windows will then open with that shell. Figure 16-8. To access the Terminal Inspector choose Terminal Show Inspector or press -I . This window shows all of your Terminal saved settings. To apply any to an existing window just select the window and then a setting. . Settings This tab is the heart of Terminal s preferences management. On the left a list of settings categories. On the right the options for the currently selected category. Terminal comes with several preconfigured settings and you can add and remove these and your own using the and-buttons below the list. To restore all the options for the prepackaged settings to their original state select Restore Defaults from the menu. To see your changes reflected instantly .
