![]() Now press your keys, and an iTerm2 overlay should appear. You can interact with this overlay in exactly the same way you interact with the regular iTerm2 window. ![]() In the left-hand menu, select the ‘Hotkey Window’ profile.Select ‘iTerm2 > Preferences…’ form the iTerm2 menu bar.To turn this overlay opaque, so that it looks more like the “regular” iTerm2 window: However, sometimes transparency can be distracting, for example if you have a particularly noisy wallpaper then you might struggle to read the iTerm2 text. Drag the ‘Window appearance’ slider to the ‘Opaque’ end of the scale.Exit iTerm2 and then repeat your keyboard shortcut, and you should see that the iTerm2 overlay is no longer transparent.One particularly useful iTerm2 feature that isn’t available in the standard Terminal, is split-screen view. This allows you to have two iTerm2 windows side-by-side, which operate independently of one another. To take a look at this split-screen view, press the ‘Command+D’ keyboard shortcut. This split-screen setup is great for general multi-tasking, but it can also be useful when you’re performing complex operations that require lots of Terminal commands, as you can divide this complex task into multiple parts and then handle each part in a separate window. ![]() You may also want to use this split-screen setup to display some useful information in one window, and then work with this information in another window.
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