Since I upgrade my iMac and it's now Lion, my terminal dock icon has a little red circle with "1" in it, similar to the one Thunderbird has that shows how many unread messages there are. There are a dozen terminal windows, and none are actively running processes, so I'm not sure what "1" could be indicating, and Terminal "Help" is about as useful as Mac Help ever is - i.e. not at all...
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
It's a new feature in Lion and it tells you that one of your tabs has new content in it. The number corresponds to the number of tabs with new content.
BTW the tab with thte new content will have a little bell in it if it isn.t the current tab.
It's a new feature in Lion and it tells you that one of your tabs has new content in it. The number corresponds to the number of tabs with new content.
BTW the tab with thte new content will have a little bell in it if it isn.t the current tab.
Thanks, that makes sense, though it would be nice if they'd put the bell in the right-click menu also - I don't use tabs for terminal windows and it's a nuisance to cycle through a couple dozen windows. Fortunately, it's not something I would use much...
Which icon are you referring to? It could be the Mail application or AppleStore application.
Terminal is the application that provides command line access
Here is a screenshot of the icon with the number:
I only had one terminal open, no tabs, and a really big number, in the teens. I'm still not sure what it means, but I clicked on the green button, getting me out of full screen mode, and now the number is gone.
What is the number in the terminal dock icon?
