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iTerm2 v3.0 Released

121 points by nikolay 10y ago

nor-and-or-not 10y ago
I wish, I could take back my upvote, because it's just v3.0 BETA and not the final release.
- maggit 10y ago
  If it's any consolation, this seems to be rolling out to everybody regardless. I'm pretty sure I'd never opt in to beta testing iTerm2, yet here I sit, having just gone through an automatic upgrade. Weird. (See also https://twitter.com/shitwhocares/status/737938380470816768 https://twitter.com/shitwhocares/status/737938380470816768 for somebody else who seems to be in the same boat)
  - to3m 10y ago
    Check the `Prompt for test-release updates' tickbox in Preferences, General.
- ianai 10y ago
  I think the comments here about adjusting to beta3 make the thread upvote-able
- gnachman 10y ago
  For historical reasons almost all users are on the beta track. I'm working to improve the situation but this is tantamount to a stable release.
- mdaniel 10y ago
  Also, FWIW, there is an actual v3.0 tag: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/releases/v3.0.0 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/releases/v3.0.0
pvinis 10y ago
I updated the nightly to 3.0.something, but didn't see any visible changes. Although I have no idea what I have, that the stable versions don't.
markelliot 10y ago
I was curious about the new features and the description on the core site was pretty helpful...possibly useful for others to save having to search: https://www.iterm2.com/version3.html https://www.iterm2.com/version3.html
- scott_s 10y ago
  The story should change to this URL.
favadi 10y ago
After updated to 3.0, iTerm2 automatically enable "thin stroke something" option that makea my font unreadable.
- cytzol 10y ago
  Same here -- reverting the font rendering was the first thing I did. Odd decision on the dev's part to make it the default. Really happy about all the other features, though!
- domoritz 10y ago
  I actually like it.
- gnachman 10y ago
  You can turn it off in prefs > profiles > text.
babo 10y ago
Actually it's a beta version, it would be great to correct the misleading title.
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arrakeen 10y ago
back when the only choice was terminal.app and iterm, iterm2 was a breath of fresh air. unfortunately, over the last 3 or so years, more and more features have been added that i will never use and the app has started to feel bloated. is there a minimalist alternative?
- makecheck 10y ago
  You should try MacTerm (macterm.net). This is my project. I think it avoids a “kitchen sink” feel, despite having lots of capabilities. I have tried to enable a lot of things through macros, scripts and low-level preferences without necessarily dumping every possible customization option into the high-level interface. MacTerm does have advanced emulation like 24-bit color and XTerm sequences with sensible defaults.
jxy 10y ago
I'm a long time Terminal.app user, and I don't understand why you need a different one. Can somebody help me understand what is the main feature of this iTerm2 that you can't live without? FWIW, I use urxvt under X11, and I'm happy with that too.
- betenoire 10y ago
  https://iterm2.com/features.html https://iterm2.com/features.html Preference, of course. Here are some features that may appeal to many users.
- drobertduke 10y ago
  It's worth it just for copy-on-select. Auto-complete and mouseless copy are great also.
- jrcii 10y ago
  For me it was that I wanted full-screen Terminal without a scrollbar. Yet I like having a scrollbar in my browser (which indicates page length for instance) and the scroll visibility is a systemwide setting in OS X. (Actually there is a plist-app-specific version of the setting which Terminal.app erroneously ignores and Apple refuses to fix it). With iTerm2 I get a scrollbar in my browser, and a clean black full screen background in my terminal.
- mdaniel 10y ago
  iTerm2 permits one to bind command-w to nothing, which is fantastic if you are going really fast and you meant to do that to Chrome but your iTerm2 has focus. Also great for errant muscle memory when one means to press control w It remembers all the sessions that were open and the directory the shell was in when Yet Another Rebooting Update comes through. Obviously the local command history is lost, but even just restoring the tabs, putting back their titles and changing back to the right directory is a monster time saver. Being open source is a very real benefit in my life, even if I never change a thing, because I can change a thing. The colored tabs are also pretty.
  - scott_s 10y ago
deeteecee 10y ago
uhh, yeah... on a side note, i had a notice telling me to upgrade to 3.0.0 while its still in beta. installed and then it wouldn't open anymore so i downgraded back :P.
- veritas3241 10y ago
  I had the same issue as well. 2.1.4 it is!
- kostas_f 10y ago
  how do I downgrade back to 2.1.4? :(
  - deeteecee 10y ago
    oh, you can easily download it back from the site and replace it i believe. (that's what I did on mac os x at least)
Ezhik 10y ago
Why is it not called iTerm3?
- mdaniel 10y ago
  This discussion might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130208
sovande 10y ago
Yeah, so that update didn't go well, 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.googlecode.iterm2.61472[2542]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 Dock[262]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=com.googlecode.iterm2.61472 path=/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm flags=1 : LaunchApplicationClient.cp #1136 LaunchApplicationViaLaunchDJobLabel() q=com.apple.root.user-initiated-qos 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 Dock[262]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=com.googlecode.iterm2.61472 path=/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm flags=1 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.googlecode.iterm2.61472[2542]) Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.
0xCMP 10y ago
No this is the real release. Beta came out in feb (https://iterm2.com/news.html https://iterm2.com/news.html)
xufi 10y ago
I wanted proper full screen to work so I switched to ITerm at a friends reccomedation. I've never looked back. It's ust so flexible as well also with the different themes you can style it with
konart 10y ago
Is there any way to make is stay on top of other windows? Even if it loses focus I mean.

121 points by nikolay 10y ago

nor-and-or-not 10y ago

I wish, I could take back my upvote, because it's just v3.0 BETA and not the final release.

maggit 10y ago
If it's any consolation, this seems to be rolling out to everybody regardless. I'm pretty sure I'd never opt in to beta testing iTerm2, yet here I sit, having just gone through an automatic upgrade. Weird. (See also https://twitter.com/shitwhocares/status/737938380470816768 https://twitter.com/shitwhocares/status/737938380470816768 for somebody else who seems to be in the same boat)
- to3m 10y ago
  Check the `Prompt for test-release updates' tickbox in Preferences, General.
ianai 10y ago
I think the comments here about adjusting to beta3 make the thread upvote-able
gnachman 10y ago
For historical reasons almost all users are on the beta track. I'm working to improve the situation but this is tantamount to a stable release.
mdaniel 10y ago
Also, FWIW, there is an actual v3.0 tag: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/releases/v3.0.0 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/releases/v3.0.0

pvinis 10y ago

I updated the nightly to 3.0.something, but didn't see any visible changes. Although I have no idea what I have, that the stable versions don't.

markelliot 10y ago

I was curious about the new features and the description on the core site was pretty helpful...possibly useful for others to save having to search: https://www.iterm2.com/version3.html https://www.iterm2.com/version3.html

scott_s 10y ago
The story should change to this URL.

favadi 10y ago

After updated to 3.0, iTerm2 automatically enable "thin stroke something" option that makea my font unreadable.

cytzol 10y ago
Same here -- reverting the font rendering was the first thing I did. Odd decision on the dev's part to make it the default. Really happy about all the other features, though!
domoritz 10y ago
I actually like it.
gnachman 10y ago
You can turn it off in prefs > profiles > text.

babo 10y ago

Actually it's a beta version, it would be great to correct the misleading title.

deleted 10y ago

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arrakeen 10y ago

back when the only choice was terminal.app and iterm, iterm2 was a breath of fresh air. unfortunately, over the last 3 or so years, more and more features have been added that i will never use and the app has started to feel bloated. is there a minimalist alternative?

makecheck 10y ago
You should try MacTerm (macterm.net). This is my project. I think it avoids a “kitchen sink” feel, despite having lots of capabilities. I have tried to enable a lot of things through macros, scripts and low-level preferences without necessarily dumping every possible customization option into the high-level interface. MacTerm does have advanced emulation like 24-bit color and XTerm sequences with sensible defaults.

jxy 10y ago

I'm a long time Terminal.app user, and I don't understand why you need a different one. Can somebody help me understand what is the main feature of this iTerm2 that you can't live without? FWIW, I use urxvt under X11, and I'm happy with that too.

betenoire 10y ago
https://iterm2.com/features.html https://iterm2.com/features.html Preference, of course. Here are some features that may appeal to many users.
drobertduke 10y ago
It's worth it just for copy-on-select. Auto-complete and mouseless copy are great also.
jrcii 10y ago
For me it was that I wanted full-screen Terminal without a scrollbar. Yet I like having a scrollbar in my browser (which indicates page length for instance) and the scroll visibility is a systemwide setting in OS X. (Actually there is a plist-app-specific version of the setting which Terminal.app erroneously ignores and Apple refuses to fix it). With iTerm2 I get a scrollbar in my browser, and a clean black full screen background in my terminal.
mdaniel 10y ago
iTerm2 permits one to bind command-w to nothing, which is fantastic if you are going really fast and you meant to do that to Chrome but your iTerm2 has focus. Also great for errant muscle memory when one means to press control w It remembers all the sessions that were open and the directory the shell was in when Yet Another Rebooting Update comes through. Obviously the local command history is lost, but even just restoring the tabs, putting back their titles and changing back to the right directory is a monster time saver. Being open source is a very real benefit in my life, even if I never change a thing, because I can change a thing. The colored tabs are also pretty.
- scott_s 10y ago

deeteecee 10y ago

uhh, yeah... on a side note, i had a notice telling me to upgrade to 3.0.0 while its still in beta. installed and then it wouldn't open anymore so i downgraded back :P.

veritas3241 10y ago
I had the same issue as well. 2.1.4 it is!
kostas_f 10y ago
how do I downgrade back to 2.1.4? :(
- deeteecee 10y ago
  oh, you can easily download it back from the site and replace it i believe. (that's what I did on mac os x at least)

Ezhik 10y ago

Why is it not called iTerm3?

mdaniel 10y ago
This discussion might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130208

sovande 10y ago

Yeah, so that update didn't go well, 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.googlecode.iterm2.61472[2542]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 Dock[262]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=com.googlecode.iterm2.61472 path=/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm flags=1 : LaunchApplicationClient.cp #1136 LaunchApplicationViaLaunchDJobLabel() q=com.apple.root.user-initiated-qos 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 Dock[262]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=com.googlecode.iterm2.61472 path=/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm flags=1 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.googlecode.iterm2.61472[2542]) Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.

0xCMP 10y ago

No this is the real release. Beta came out in feb (https://iterm2.com/news.html https://iterm2.com/news.html)

xufi 10y ago

I wanted proper full screen to work so I switched to ITerm at a friends reccomedation. I've never looked back. It's ust so flexible as well also with the different themes you can style it with

konart 10y ago

Is there any way to make is stay on top of other windows? Even if it loses focus I mean.