Activate Visor Quake-style via just the tilde key

Mar 24, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: paczor

On my Macbook Pro, I wasn't able to use just the tilde key (~) as an activation key in Visor (a Quake-like terminal). The app's preferences window allows only tilde with some of modifiers like Option or Control. But you can change it back to the single-key Quake-like behavior if you wish. First quit Terminal if its running.

Open ~/Library » Preferences » com.apple.Terminal.plist in Property List Editor (or PListEdit Pro). Find the dictionary entry called VisorHotKey, open it, and make it look like this:

Save the file. Now, run Terminal again and check if it works by pressing only tilde.

[robg adds: With this hint active, it seems you won't be able to type a tilde in any program -- though I haven't tested this myself to confirm.]

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