Terminal Advanced preferences

Terminfo

Set the TERM environment variable setting used by terminfo.

To change the setting, click the “Declare terminal as” pop-up menu, then choose a name.

Input

Select checkboxes to enable Terminal input behaviors.

• Delete sends Control-H.

• Escape non-ASCII input with Control-V.

• Paste newlines as carriage returns.

• Allow VT100 application keypad mode.

• Scroll to bottom on input.

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.