Change Profiles Advanced preferences in Terminal on Mac
Use Advanced preferences in Terminal to change the emulation and character encoding for a Terminal window profile.
To change these preferences in the Terminal app on your Mac, choose Terminal > Preferences, click Profiles, select a profile, then click Advanced.
Note: The options you choose in this preference pane apply only to the profile you select. They don’t apply to the Terminal app in general.
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Terminfo | Set the To change the setting, click the “Declare terminal as” pop-up menu, then choose a name. | ||||||||||
Input | Select checkboxes to enable Terminal input behaviors.
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Bell | Select checkboxes to enable Terminal notifications. To be alerted with a sound, select “Audible bell.” To be alerted with a flash, select “Visual bell.” To be alerted with a flash when the sound is muted, select “Visual bell” and “Only when sound is muted.” To display the number of sessions in the background that had a bell character (Control-G or \a) written to them, select “Badge app and window Dock icons.” To bounce the Dock icon when a session in the background has a bell character written to it, select “Bounce app icon when in background.” To bounce the Dock icon continuously when a session in the background has a bell character written to it, select “Bounce app icon when in background” and “Continue bouncing until in foreground.” | ||||||||||
International | To change the character encoding, click the “Text encoding” pop-up menu, then choose a character encoding. To configure the environment for this encoding, select “Set locale environment variables on startup.” Unicode East Asian Ambiguous characters are wide: If this checkbox is selected, the characters are treated as East Asian Wide. If not selected, they are treated as East Asian Narrow. |