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by raamdev 2306 days ago
I’m surprised to see that the iTerm2 dedicated hotkey window hasn’t been mentioned. It’s essentially a system-wide terminal window that you can open with a hotkey, similar to the old Visor app, and you can configure it as a floating window that appears over other apps' full screen windows. https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html
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I always loved that feature -- you can map it to tilde (~) and set it to a full-width, top-docked window to emulate an old Quake-style terminal.
Yeah - I use this workflow and love it. cmd + esp (with caps lock remapped to escape) to toggle a full screen terminal from any application. Means don't have to cmd + tab and hunt for it, it's always one shortcut away.
Agreed this is the most important feature for me. I use it in the same way.
I just discovered this last night! Such a cool feature.