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I ****highly**** recommend GLTerm.

http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/

I've used it for years, paid for it within days of first use. hth.

Check this out: http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/ from the site: GLterm is a replacement for the Terminal application which ships with MacOS X. It's made to be faster, and to support more common terminal features. It supports full ANSI colors, all vt102 protocol, all DEC function keys, and a selection of useful xterm sequences. The Big Thing is that GLterm uses X11 .bdf fonts and renders them using..OpenGL. So it's very fast... as long as you have a working 3D accelerator. It should work as intended on B&W G3 and up for desktops and on White iBook and up for laptops: ie a machine whose 3D accelerator is handled properly in OSX. To this date (April 2002) Rage II, II+, Pro are not accelerated.

GLterm

Check out GLTerm, which in the 10.1-early 10.2 days was a very nice replacement to the stock Terminal.app.

http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/

-mj

and neither can terminal.app! lord, it's the worst terminal program i've ever used. there are, however, some good replacements.

• iterm - fast and light with tabs and other neat things. my current favourite.
• glterm - it uses opengl to render fonts. no, really. results in way better performance (although at some window sizes the text is fuzzy)

Is GLTerm it is opengl accelerated (woopee), and has support for some popular linux fonts, including ones that actually contain high ascii chars so you can irc in beautiful color.. it's shareware though, but the guy who writes it is really cool, so I shelled out the $20

Nobody has mentioned GLTerm. This program does not look as nice as Terminal.app (especially if you like the transparency feature, which it does not have), but it is much faster. Much faster. It renders the entire contents of your terminal using OpenGL, bypassing Quartz entirely. I used it frequently on my old iBook (no Quartz Extreme support was possible on this machine, and the Terminal.app really lagged). It really fits the bill if you are frustrated with Terminal.app's slowness.

More information is available here.

There's a OK one called GLTerm. It's got its faults, and it's a 10 USD shareware, but it Works For Me (tm).

Change line 174 to the following and it looks much better:
convert[255 - i] = table[i * strlen(table) / 256];

Also, you get a better framerate (ha!) using an OpenGL-based terminal like GLterm which is much, much faster than the default terminal. I thought the idea of an OpenGL terminal was silly, until now.

You may want to check out GLterm, I've used it on my iBook under OS 10.1.5 and it provides a much richer set of features than Apple's Terminal.app.

GLterm is a replacement for the Terminal application which ships with MacOS X. It's made to be faster, and to support more common terminal features. It supports full ANSI colors, all vt102 protocol, all DEC function keys, and a selection of useful xterm sequences.

Is the Powerbook keyboard different? That, and "Esc" never seems to be where I expect it...and I use vi :)

Feh, learn to use ctrl-[ (I blame my dad for that one -- I still don't use ctrl-I for tab like he does though).

I'd probably even give on the "delete" issue if Terminal.app was workable, especially since there's Free software on sourceforge that lets me run X apps on OS X.

Try GLterm.

I heartily recommend GLTerm, or using OSX's X display to run a local xterm. Terminal.app is a pain in the ass. For some god-unknown reason, it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to start up. Longer than photoshop!

i dig the quotes, and the fact that about .005% of mac users will know what the hell /dev/null is (and i'll bet no small number will try to find out by sending stuff there. fun!)

what makes me smirk, though, is the screenshot on the powerbook. for one, the dock is full of MS Office icons - whoa, lots of unix there. the ever disappointing terminal is open (i replaced Terminal.app on my ibook with one that isn't dog slow, GLterm) and showing the "top" command.

let's see what's in there.. yep, as usual, top is taking top spot.

and what else is on the screen, showing the power of UNIX in a candy-coated Mac shell? iTunes! and lookee here, PowerPoint! i know those are both UNIX apps. i run them on my Solaris box all the time...

top is showing apache in there (on a powerbook? why is that enabled?), and netscape 6 (tho, why not mozilla?) and the X icon is in the dock, but there's no windows to be seen. There's one terminal open, yet i see 2 tcsh processes.. maybe X is using one?

i'm all about Apple advertising their UNIX underpinnings, but i have to think they could have done a better job showing it off. like in the old days when my favorite way of showing somebody the powerPC (smokin' at 100 MHz!) in my new 8100 was so dang fast - the graphing calculator. oh yeah. rotating trig functions in 3D with the apple logo mapped onto the surface.

okay, i'm rambling now.

I thought the official party line was that CLIs were "evil", like two-button mice...

I've been working all those years on both UNIXes and assimilates (Pr1mos!) and on Macs.
I've now reconciled both the threads by releasing the geekiest terminal emmulator for OSX : one that uses OpenGL to render text! [shameless plug Homepage]

As for the iPOD, the folder that contains the music is indeed invisible... to the Finder but NOT to a terminal... So I'm not sure that it can count as a 'piracy protection' device at all.
In any case, you could always copy the files "by mistake" by typing
cp -r /Volumes/
Does that make zsh -or my tab key- a terrorist helper device ?