A script for using iTerm2 instead of xterm on OSX

TagTime
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The following seems to be working! First, make an iTerm2 profile called TagTime with the style you want. Put the following somewhere in your path, I called it iterm2-tagtime:

#!/bin/bash

osascript <<EOF
tell application "iTerm2"
  activate
  set newWindow to (create window with profile "TagTime" command "$@")

  delay 1
  repeat while exists newWindow
    delay 1
  end repeat
end tell
EOF

Then in TagTime’s launch.pl, replace $XT ... ${path}ping.pl $t with iterm2-tagtime ${path}ping.pl $t, and similarly for the other use of $XT a few lines later.

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Thanks so much for posting these instructions! I needed to get rid of xterm and this has been working like a charm for me. I don’t understand what the delay-1’s and repeat-while-exists are accomplishing but it didn’t seem to work without them so I’m now following your instructions to the letter and all is good. :slight_smile:

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The user can choose other shells available with macOS, such as the Korn shell, tcsh, and zsh.