episteme.arstechnica.com — Follow this Ars Technica forum thread for a Mac OS X application which produces a terminal console that drops down from the top of the screen, a la Quake. Jun 11, 2006 View in Crawl 4
frrtbkrJun 11, 2006
If you already don't have SIMBL installed you can get it here:<a class="user" href="http://www.culater.net/dl/files/SIMBL-0.8.1.tbz">http://www.culater.net/dl/files/SIMBL-0.8.1.tbz</a>Once that's all set put the visor bundle in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins<a class="user" href="http://download.blacktree.com/Visor.zip">http://download.blacktree.com/Visor.zip</a>Terminal must be running for it to workHere are some .qtz styles to try:<a class="user" href="http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.cgi?quartz&samples&en&">http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.cgi?quartz&samples&en&</a>
Closed AccountJun 11, 2006
pics?
clintologyJun 14, 2006
Here's a video of how it works: <a class="user" href="http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/visor.MP4">http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/visor.MP4</a>
swordsaintJun 14, 2006
Brilliant. It really needs its own web space somewhere.
a1c0rJun 14, 2006
Put up a basic wiki page about it: <a class="user" href="http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor">http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor</a>
Closed AccountJun 15, 2006
Well that's a fairly stupid thing to say, isn't it!
wsewellJun 15, 2006
Go troll somewhere else.
nick58bJun 15, 2006
There's something similar for KDE called YaKuake: <a class="user" href="http://yakuake.uv.ro/">http://yakuake.uv.ro/</a>
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frrtbkrJun 11, 2006
If you already don't have SIMBL installed you can get it here:<a class="user" href="http://www.culater.net/dl/files/SIMBL-0.8.1.tbz">http://www.culater.net/dl/files/SIMBL-0.8.1.tbz</a>Once that's all set put the visor bundle in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins<a class="user" href="http://download.blacktree.com/Visor.zip">http://download.blacktree.com/Visor.zip</a>Terminal must be running for it to workHere are some .qtz styles to try:<a class="user" href="http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.cgi?quartz&samples&en&">http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.cgi?quartz&samples&en&</a>
Closed AccountJun 11, 2006
pics?
clintologyJun 14, 2006
Here's a video of how it works: <a class="user" href="http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/visor.MP4">http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/visor.MP4</a>
swordsaintJun 14, 2006
Brilliant. It really needs its own web space somewhere.
a1c0rJun 14, 2006
Put up a basic wiki page about it: <a class="user" href="http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor">http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor</a>
Closed AccountJun 15, 2006
Well that's a fairly stupid thing to say, isn't it!
wsewellJun 15, 2006
Go troll somewhere else.
nick58bJun 15, 2006
There's something similar for KDE called YaKuake: <a class="user" href="http://yakuake.uv.ro/">http://yakuake.uv.ro/</a>