![]() Once your hot key is set, you can toggle in and out of the drop-down command line from within any application in Mac OS, as long as iTerm2 is open in the background. Dismiss the drop-down command line panel by clicking outside of the terminal window, or by hitting the hot key again.Confirm the drop-down instant terminal window works as expected by pressing your hot key (double-tap Control key in this example).Click “OK”, optionally go to the “Profiles” menu and customize the appearance by modifying the ‘Hotkey Window’ profile as desired.Set your hot key keyboard shortcut as desired, or choose “Double-Tap Key” and set that accordingly, the example here uses a double-tap of the ‘Control’ key to access the drop-down command line panel.Choose the “Keys” tab and click the “Create a Dedicated Hotkey Window” button.Pull down the “iTerm2” menu and choose “Preferences”.Download iTerm2 from the developer, place it into you /Applications/ folder, then launch iTerm2.How to Setup Instant Command Line Access with iTerm2 ![]() To get the drop-down command line, you will use a third party app called iTerm2, which is a popular third party terminal client for the Mac. Whatever the need, you can use this great trick to have an immediately available terminal window from anywhere or from within any application in Mac OS. Maybe you need to quickly ping a server, use Homebrew, push git changes, reboot or shut down a remote machine, connect to a remote server with ssh, or any other quick task that requires the command line. ![]()
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