

You can also see the way tiling the image works when the window is half size and full size. It’s more pleasing that just a plain black background and some white text. If your background is the same resolution of you monitor or larger, this will prevent the background image from scaling when the window size changes.
#CUSTOMIZE ITERM2 UPDATE#
Wheel slightly under the middle line, but it will vary based on your preferences and scheme.Īgain, if for some reason it didn’t update immediately, exit preferences and open up the profileīack in the Preferences and under Profiles, open the Window tab.Ĭlick on the little check box for Background Image to open the window where you can select your background.ĭepending on your background’s resolution, I recommend turing on Tile Image. If you use the color wheel, I recommend keeping the arrow on the bar to the right of the color I used the color wheel, but the color palette tab in the middle The tabs at the top of this window have someĭifferent ways to pick colors. The following window shows up when it’s clicked. Of the two magenta boxes, the one I want is on the left.

The colors back on preferences correspond directly to what is seen on screen and this is what Of the colors in the scheme so it becomes a prime candidate for customizing. The bar for me that is pink with the time on it didn’t change and doesn’t quite match the rest

#CUSTOMIZE ITERM2 HOW TO#
Will show you how to select a wallpaper instead of having a plain solid color for a background. The background box here is used you want to change your background color, but at the end of the tutorial I In the colors tab in preferences there are some color boxes that change the overallĬolors. Now we should see our colors change! Woo! Profile will be the one available called default. If you didn’t create a profile, then your Select the profile that you are working with. If for some reason it didn’t update immediately, exit preferences and open up the profileĬhooser by hitting ( ⌘ + i ). It should reflect immediately because we are working on the default profile. The theme you choose will then appear in the load presets drop down where you can select it. You canįind a theme put the command in terminal I put earlier: Many as you like, but you don’t need to import all of them. In the little drop down window click import.Ĭhoose the theme that you would like to import. Once you’re in the preferences window, click on the profiles button.Īt the bottom there is a load presets button that will let us import the color themes This can be done either one of two ways:įrom the menu bar under iTerm > Preferences You canĮxit the cycle by hitting ctrl + C when you find one that you want to import. SimplyĪnd it will cycle through the schemes when you push a button on your keyboard. That will let you cycle through all the colors and find one that you like. Let's add docker plugin.The creators of the repository were kind enough to include an awesome terminal command To add more, for instance, docker, auto-suggestion, syntax highlighting and more: Oh My ZSH comes preloaded with a git plugin. Now that you’ve installed iTerm2, let’s customize its appearance and settings to create a visually appealing and efficient workspace: Open iTerm2 and navigate to iTerm2 > Settings. Step 2: Customize iTerm2 Terminal Appearance and Settings. Tada! 🎉 We’re done with the basic settings. Launch iTerm2 from the Applications folder. Navigate to iTerm2 > Preferences > Profile > Colors > Color Presets > Import You can choose to activate one of the preloaded color schemes such as Solarized Dark.

Navigate to the schemes folder and select your preferred color schemes to import them.Then, extract the downloaded folder cos what we need resides in the schemes folder.
#CUSTOMIZE ITERM2 ZIP#
Navigate to iTerm2-Color-Schemes and download the ZIP folder. Let’s change the color scheme to bring out the beauty of our terminal. For fonts that support ligatures like Fira Code, check the “Use ligatures” option to view your arrows and other operators in a stylish manner like ( → ). Now, you can see Inconsolata listed as one of the fonts. To change the font, navigate to iTerm2 > Preferences > Profiles > Text > Change Font.
