On my Mac, there is no window open when I start Terminal app. I just played with a friend's Mac, a window is automatically opened on startup of terminal. He doesn't know how it's done. I just played with preferences and couldn't find anything for that. Does anyone know how to do that?
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- Create a Windows Group
- Go to Preferences -> Start, and select the windows group to open on start up
brianegge
2009-08-14 07:52:41
For some reason, that doesn't work for me. I still have to open new window manually.
ZZ Coder
2009-08-14 07:58:13
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From the Terminal App, choose Preferences: select Startup and verify that the "On startup, open new window with settings:" radio button is selected and select Basic from the pull-down menu. That's all I have and it starts up with an open window for me.
ktrimbach
2009-08-15 05:35:30
I guess something is messed up on my Mac. This doesn't work for me either.
ZZ Coder
2009-08-15 13:09:44
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I'm just grasping at straws here: is it possible that your Terminal program is always running in the background, and you are not actually completely exiting? You can perform this test: Run Terminal in whatever manner you usually do, and then press Command-Q to quit the application completely. Now run Terminal again. Did it open a new window?
The Mac has a slightly different paradigm on open/closed applications, namely that closing the last window doesn't actually quit the application. Combine this with the fact that Mac users rarely ever actually reboot their computers, and it's easy for relatively novice Mac users to have many applications that are simply running in the background that are never closed completely.
Just a shot in the dark. If you are for sure exiting the app completely than I can't think of a solution for the problem either.
Jaison Lee
2009-08-18 18:19:45
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If you've tried all the above suggestions, see if anything weird is appearing in your console. Open up /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and watch the "All Messages" log while you open Terminal.
JW
2009-08-18 18:22:13
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Guys, I am having the same problem. Anyone can help? I am running 10.5.8
George
2009-12-28 10:57:29
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You could try one of the other terminal apps that are out there for Mac. I prefer iTerm, it's free and works very well. It also gives you nice features like tabs, color schemes and fullscreen terminals.
Techpriester
2009-12-28 11:02:32