iTerm, terminal emulator for OS X

Unfortunately the developers have largely stopped maintaining it ... it's been about eight months since anything's been updated at all and there's an enormous list of requests that are undone. A shame, because it really is a terrific terminal program.

Does anyone know if there's any way to make iTerm the default terminal application for OS X? Some applications call for commands to be run in a terminal and they invariably open Terminal.app. I'm not sure if they actually call to "open Terminal.app", though, but I'd really like it if I could set iTerm as the default terminal program...

a niche audience? a niche audience for terminal emulators. the unix shell is the only reason i (and probably a lot of other people) am using mac os x. basically everyone i know uses the terminal more than anything else, because you can do a lot of things, and almost everything faster than with the graphical frontends (Finder e.g.) iterm has a lot of cool features, yeah, but its just too slow to use it on my 1.33ghz with 512mb ram. so ive converted to terminal, which is way faster

iTerm is much too slow (typing response speed) even on my 1.2ghz iBook with 768mb of ram.

I use iTerm regularly as well. To be honest, it's mostly because it's more readable when you use anti-aliased fonts. I know, I know... it's a terminal window, so why would I do such a thing? ;) The tabs can be very handy, but I do agree that the customization is way more difficult than it needs to be. It took me a while to figure out how to just change the damned font color and have it affect the default session.

I tried iTerm about a month back, but couldn't get into it. It seemed less responsive and harder to configure than the standard Terminal.app and without any useful additional features (tabs are worthless to me as I use GNU screen for my multiplexing -- heck, it's even standard on OS X now). If iTerm supported the xterm mouse (as the shareware GLterm does), I'd definitely give it another shot.

I was using iTerm for quite awhile as my main terminal. The tabs are amazing. I stopped using it, though, for one reason: iTerm can't handle certain characters, like the Apple symbol that's generated by typing "option-shift-k." I have some folders that use that symbol in their name, and even if I drag them to an iTerm window, it can't properly translate the character, effectively preventing me from using the app with any of these folders. It's a real problem for me. So I switched back to the good old trusty Terminal.app. Which, I must say, aside from its lack of tabs, I really rather like. Simple, basic, always works. I still keep iTerm around, though, for the AppleScript functionality, which is also very cool.

I've been an iTerm user for a long time as well. Love it, the only one i use.

A fair warning: iTerm has the worst customization options in the world. It requires the user to define templates, which than have to be called through Bookmarks. It's incredibly clunky and the templates tend to break, i.e. you can't save your changes unless you duplicate it under a different name, which - in turn - forces you to change all your bookmarks. Pain in the b***! Nonetheless, I use iTerm a lot (it's my replacement for Terminal.app) and I can still recommend it for all of you who love the command line better than the mouse.

I've been using iTerm as my primary terminal client for a while now. This article reminded me to check for a version update. It's really a great little app. Lots of niceties like bookmarking servers and tabbed windows and such.