Terminal.app preferences question

[hazmat]

This is an excellent article: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/26/terminal_four.html?page=1 . Really helped with managing terminals. Anyway, so I made another that I saved to a .term, and would like to make the default, which is currently another set of prefs. Is there any way to make what I have loaded from a .term file the default prefs for Terminal? I can set it so this .term is opened when Terminal is, but hitting command-n for a new Terminal window opens what is in the Terminal preferences. I was hoping there would be an easy way to make the prefs inherit the current active window.

Thanks.

 

[onan]

Yep. The general preferences file which Terminal.app uses for windows lives at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist , and it's the same format as the .term files. If you have the settings you want in a .term file, just copy it over the plist file. (Ideally while Terminal.app isn't running, to make sure you're not fighting over the file.)

As an aside, I've been very happy with setting up a large collection of .term files and accessing them through the dock. With keyboard dock access turned on, a couple keystrokes allow me to open a shell on any of about two hundred machines, in a window color-coded to their location and function. Amazingly handy.

 

[hazmat]

Yeah, very useful. Thanks for the info, but the two files are different; different enough that I didn't want to mess with it that way. I ended up just changing the preferences through the GUI. I know how to get to the Dock with the keyboard, but I don't find the access that quick, or am I doing something wrong? Hitting ^F3 goes to the Dock, but then you need to arrow down to the folder you set up with the .terms. No? I find it easier to just right-click on the folder in the Dock where the terminals sub-folder is and get them that way. I'd love an easier way. I saw the Terminal Pal, which is a nice .term launcher, but that would end up making two icons in the Dock, itself and Terminal.app, which I think is a waste of space.

As nice as it is now with different terms, I still can't wait for MacTelnet X.