No longer able to access the TotalTerminal settings

[milgrim]

I don't remember exactly what it's called and when it became available, but some time ago I enabled a new option that keeps the terminal application in the background when it's open. Since then I can no longer access the settings because I am no longer able to access the terminals menu bar. I tried to remove the ˜/Library/Preferences/ files for the terminal and totalterminal applications to reset everything but that did not work. Does anyone have any hints for me on how I can revert that setting?

[darwin]

I think @popavo could recall.

[WonderBeat]

Oh. Same problem. I've removed total terminal icon from app panel and now I can't open settings. Need help

[foxxyz]

This shortcut might help to access settings without the menu bar: Cmd + ,

[milgrim]

Awesome, that did the trick. Thanks!

[darwin]

Yep. TotalTerminal settings are just one tab in Terminal.app settings. You can go through Main Menu -> Terminal -> Preferences... as well.

[milgrim]

What do you mean by "Main Menu"?

[darwin]

Each app displays main menu in top left corner of the main display. Look for apple icon in the top-left corner :)

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:55 PM, milgrim notifications@github.com wrote:

What do you mean by "Main Menu"?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/binaryage/totalterminal/issues/97#issuecomment-33504842 .

[milgrim]

Well, that was the main problem. By activating "Run Terminal.app as a background app" I was no longer able to access the main menu of terminal ;)

[darwin]

Ah, now I see. You are right. This is a problem.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:57 PM, milgrim notifications@github.com wrote:

Well, that was the main problem. By activating "Run Terminal.app as a background app" I was no longer able to access the main menu of terminal ;)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/binaryage/totalterminal/issues/97#issuecomment-33505103 .

[milgrim]

Yes. Maybe you could just make the background option only available after enabling the status menu icon for total terminal. But anyway: thanks for your help and a great application!

[BartoszKaszewczuk]

One workaround is to kill TotalTerminalCrashWatcher, TotalTerminal and Terminal; then restating Terminal.app, opening preferences window (CMD + ,) and then starting TotalTerminal.

This way you can open preferences window before TotalTerminal injects its code and after starting TotalTerminal a new tab with TotalTerminal preferences will appear allowing you to edit any settings. Hope this helps.

[janstieler]

Thanks for your workaround.

[popavo]

@darwin A possible solution would be to enable the status item when "Run Terminal.app as a background app" is enabled. That way, there would always be a GUI method to open prefs.

[darwin]

Solved in 1.5.2: http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/#1.5.2

Implemented @popavo's proposal.

For individuals unhappy with this change, there is a new plist tweak:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal TotalTerminalHideStatusItemRegardless -bool yes

[nach0]

Wow, I came here to complain about having the menu bar icon always present with 1.5.4, just to see you had already offered a workaround for people like me. Thumbs up for you!

[mikeploeger]

Thanks for the workaround :+1: In my opinion, the option to disable the menubar entry of total terminal if terminal is running as a background app should be available with a custom 'hint' or 'are you really sure' message.

Because the current solution leads to problems like: I'am using the App 'Bartender', which has an option to hide menu bar elements, but total terminal is the only application (because of this changed made here) which can't get removed without knowing this workaround (defaults write com.apple.Terminal TotalTerminalHideStatusItemRegardless -bool yes). I think every user, of this software should have this option in the pref pane.

Alternative: Make a hint box in the pref panel with some kind of text: 'To hide total terminal in the menu bar type the following: defaults write com.apple.Terminal TotalTerminalHideStatusItemRegardless -bool yes'