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Is there a way to set up the Mac OS X Terminal to behave like the gnome-terminal in ubuntu? Or is there a similar application like gnome-terminal on mac?

Please - No Darwin or Macports - I was unable to get those to work.

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Excuse my ignorance: I know a lot about the Mac world, but I'm strictly ignorant to Ubuntu. If you tell me (us) what you would like the Terminal to do, perhaps we could help better. I believe there are more Mac-competent people than Mac-and-Ubuntu competent people. – zneak Jan 15 '10 at 16:27
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This is definitely a SuperUser question, not a StackOverflow question, as it is about setting up applications on a machine, and not developing said applications. I've voted to migrate it over there. Beerweasle, for information about migration, please see meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28803/… – John Rudy Jan 15 '10 at 16:28
Well, on the no Macports front, there is always fink: finkproject.org And it has a gnome-terminal package. (BTW--fink is a different commandline package manager, maybe not what you're looking for.) – dmckee Jan 16 '10 at 4:04
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Why were you unable to get Macports to work? – Darren Newton Jan 17 '10 at 14:22
Dont know - but i still dont want to install xcode just for installing gnome-terminal – user25182 Jan 18 '10 at 11:58
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Check out iTerm.

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Here’s a nice hint for emulating the ‘new tab starts in same path as old tab’ behaviour commonly found on linux terminal emulators.

Too bad that it’s just a bash function, for in most cases you’d probably want to open the new tab in order to get access to the bash in that directory in the first place.

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I second the recommendation on iTerm. So far it's done everything I've needed (even supports focus follows mouse for iTerm windows). It's a little slow, sometimes annoyingly so (mainly when scrolling large files in emacs), most of the time it's fine.

Also, it's worth installing macports. Especially if you're a linux user who is migrating to, or just using a mac.

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Check out iTerm 2: http://sites.google.com/site/iterm2home/

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