Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.

Visor 1.2.1 is compatible with 10.4 only. Visor 1.5 is compatible with 10.5 only.

Installation & Usage

1. Install SIMBL. More information about SIMBL can be found here.
2. Place Visor.bundle in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
3. (Re)launch Terminal.app - You should now see the Visor menu item.
4. Configure your keyboard trigger by selecting the visor menu item -> preferences and editing your keyboard hotkey. Optionally choose a quartz file to be placed in the background of your Visor terminal session.
5. You can now trigger Visor with your hotkey from any application to get an instant terminal session. To exit Visor, you can either re-trigger with your key-combo, use the logout key-combo (control+d) to close the Visor window and close the current shell or optionally you can click off of the Visor window. When re-triggering Visor you will be greeted with a new login shell (if you closed your session), or your old shell if you simply disabled Visor.

Changing window options

The terminal window inspector works, but only if it is opened for the first time when visor is frontmost.

1. Switch to Terminal.app
2. Bring up Visor's window
3. Choose "Window Settings" from the Terminal menu
4. Settings are saved when Visor hides.
5. If you get "No Terminal Selected", you need to relaunch terminal and for it to work.