Home General Usage Preferences Profiles Bookmarks Scripting Installation Misc | Scripting support: iTerm has sophisticated Applescript support allowing one to write stand-alone scripts to launch the application and open multiple sessions from the addressbook into either new tabs or new windows. You can also set some other parameters for a session such as foreground and background colors, and transparency. Here is a sample script: -- A sample iTerm Applescript tell application "iTerm" activate -- close the first session terminate the first session of the first terminal -- make a new terminal set myterm to (make new terminal) -- talk to the new terminal tell myterm -- set size set number of columns to 100 set number of rows to 50 -- make a new session set mysession to (make new session at the end of sessions) -- talk to the session tell mysession -- set some attributes set name to "tcsh" set foreground color to "red" set background color to "blue" set transparency to "0.6" -- execute a command exec command "/bin/tcsh" end tell -- we are done talking to the session -- we are back to talking to the terminal -- launch a default shell in a new tab in the same terminal launch session "Default Session" -- launch a saved session from the addressbook. launch session "path/to/saved/session" -- select the previous session select mysession -- get the tty name of a session set myttyname to the tty of the first session -- refer to a session by its tty/id tell session id myttyname set foreground color to "yellow" end tell end tell -- talk to the first terminal tell the first terminal -- launch a default shell in a new tab in the same terminal launch session "Default Session" tell the last session -- write some text write text "cd Projects/Cocoa/iTerm" -- write the contents of a file write contents of file "/path/to/file/" end tell end tell -- reposition window and name it set the bounds of the first window to {100, 100, 700, 700} set the name of the first window to "A Window Title" end tell These scripts can then be saved as stand-alone executable applications. Autolaunching script: iTerm supports autolaunching of an Applescript on startup. On startup, iTerm looks for an Applescript called "AutoLaunch.scpt" under ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm. If it is found, the AutoLauch.scpt is launched and executed. This feature can be used to launch multiple sessions in defined windows and tabs when iTerm starts up. User defined scripts: iTerm also supports launching of user defined scripts from the "Scripts" menu. The scripts need to be stored under the "~/Library/Application Support/iTerm/Scripts" directory. You can create this directory if it does not already exist. iTerm checks this directory on startup.

Modified: Nov 16th, 2006
Created: Dec 18th, 2002
Fabian and Ujwal S. Setlur
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