How to change the Terminal to a floating window?

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How to change the Terminal to a floating window?

How to change the Terminal to a floating window?
Posted: Apr 18, 2010 10:38 PM
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G'day,
I seem to recall that it was easy to make the Terminal window a floating window in previous versions of OS 10, but in 10.6 I don't see an option to float the Terminal. Does anyone know how to do this please?

Thanks,
-Andy

MacBook Pro 2.6 Ghz INTEL, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 18, 2010 11:09 PM

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Apr 22, 2010 3:07 AM in response to Robert Jacobson1

Well I'm so sorry I wasted 5 seconds of your time, Robert. Obviously I wouldn't have taken the time to register here if I had seen that link. I'm so glad that you find the need to inform everyone how stupid you think I am and that I didn't research this prior to posting.

On a side note, thanks for the link. I do appreciate it. I'm sure there is another way to do it without another piece of software, but for now I'll use that Afloat program.

-Andy

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Apr 19, 2010 3:01 PM in response to Rockbiter

This took me 5 seconds on Google...

http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/

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Apr 25, 2010 11:01 AM in response to Rockbiter

Hi,

I also never found a way to do it without another software. Something as simple as this shouldn't require to download, again, another plugin to add it to the thousands we already have.
A good alternative to the program mentioned above is the visor program. I'm using it since a little while and it has improved the fluidity of my work, regarding the usage of the terminal, more than I expected.
It is not exactly a floating window, but it makes the terminal pop-up wherever you are, using hot key, keeping the sub-window structured, etc... it's there :
http://visor.binaryage.com/

I never had any bug so far (I use it since 2 months)

Cheers

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Apr 25, 2010 12:51 PM in response to chameaumangeurdecrapauds

I also vote for Visor. I have been using it for about a year now and could not live without it. So very convenient!

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