Aral Balkan

Visor for OSX (Visor.bundle) is a lovely Quake-like interface for Terminal that I absolutely couldn't live without. Unfortunately, upgrading to Snow Leopard disables it.

Re-enabling it, thankfully, is very easy: Go to Applications → Utilities, ⌘-click Terminal.app and select Get Info (or press ⌘-i) and check the Open in 32-bit mode checkbox. Finally, start Terminal.app and you should have your beloved Visor back.

This tip comes to you courtesy of Tanja (the last comment in this blog post).

Comments

• I still highly recommend my solution. It keeps your main terminal app at 64-bit and works 100%. http://www.metaskills.net/2009/8/18/visor-terminal-on-snow-leopard

  by Ken Collins on 2009-08-29 17:03:05

• I found I had to start from scratch, as I had a version of SIMBL that was incompatible. So what DEF works : - SIMBL-0.8.2.tbz - Visor2.0 - 32bit mode Terminal.app

  by daniel on 2009-09-10 06:15:09

• Ditto, I can see the visor icon in the menu bar, but no visor terminal window, did this work on it's own? Or does it require the 32bit/64bit replacing of the terminal.app described in the linked to blog post?

  by Chris W on 2009-08-29 11:36:06

• This solution didn't work for me, although I am running a clean install of Snow Leopard. I can see the Visor icon in the menu bar, but nothing happens when I try the key combination or manually select "Show Visor."

  by Neil Goodman on 2009-08-29 10:05:51

• Third. If I play around a bit it seems I can make the panel show up briefly by selecting "Full Screen", but it fails whenever I try to invoke it with the Key Combo. It does seem like Terminal gains focus though. It's just the panel that doesn't show.

  by Martin on 2009-08-29 12:30:07

• I have the same problem, visor launches and window focus changes to Terminal but nothing is displayed on the screen.

  by NicZak on 2009-09-01 21:01:07

• This worked perfect for me, thanks!

  by Chris B on 2009-08-29 19:20:20

• Hi Aral. This worked for me. Thanks, friendo.

  by Jeffery Bennett on 2009-08-31 21:13:40

• Thanks! Worked like a charm!

  by Stan Rawrysz on 2010-01-18 07:19:01

• thx so much!

  by Geeky And Proud on 2010-04-16 11:07:50