10.7: Keep Silver Aerogel blur effect in Terminal at all times
Mar 07, '12 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
When using the 'Silver Aerogel' theme with Terminal, it blurs text underneath the window, but only if Terminal is the active application. I find the inconsistency a little jarring. Fortunately, this can be changed.
In Terminal, perform the following commands:
echo -e "defaults write com.apple.Terminal '" >| output.$$
defaults read com.apple.Terminal | sed -e 's/(BackgroundBlurInactive.*)0/11/' >> output.$$
echo ' >> output.$$
eval $(cat output.$$)
rm output.$$
NOTE: you may need to change this a little if you're not using bash. Presumably you know what to put if you've changed your shell. If you don't what that means, then you're using bash.
Quit Terminal. Now, when you relaunch it, your Aerogel windows will maintain the blur effect even if they're not the active window.
[kirkmc adds: I didn't go to the trouble of testing this, because blurred text gives me a headache. But that theme does, indeed, blur text by default. If anyone wants to confirm that this works...]
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