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 TERM environment variable setting used by terminfo. To change the setting, click the “Declare terminal as” pop-up menu, then choose a terminal type. |
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.
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Bell | Select checkboxes to enable Terminal notifications. Audible bell: Alerts with a sound. Visual bell: Alerts with a flash. Only when sound is muted: Alerts with a flash when the sound is muted. Badge app and window Dock icons: Displays the number of sessions in the background that had a bell character (Control-G or \a) written to them. Bounce the app icon when in the background: Bounces the Dock icon when a session in the background has a bell character written to it. Continue bouncing until in foreground: Bounces the Dock icon continuously when a session in the background has a bell character written to it.
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International | Set international options. Text encoding: Choose the character encoding. Set locale environment variables on startup: Configure the environment for this encoding. Unicode East Asian Ambiguous characters are wide: Treat the characters as East Asian Wide; otherwise, the characters are treated as East Asian Narrow.
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