Pet & Animal: How to Open a Terminal Window in Mac

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

How to Open a Terminal Window in Mac

The Terminal provides Mac users with a way to access and adjust settings of the operating system with text-based commands. If you need to use the Terminal, but don't know how, the steps to open it are simple.

Steps

Opening with Spotlight

Run the cursor to the top of the screen. This will expose the menu bar.

Click the Spotlight icon (magnifying glass). You will find this on the menu bar at the top, right of the screen.

Start typing in the search field. After two or three characters, the Terminal icon will appear.

Click the Terminal icon once it appears.

Opening with a Keyboard Shortcut

Unlike Ubuntu, Mac does not have a preset shortcut to open the Terminal. This method shows how to create your own shortcut to the Terminal Window.

Open Run the cursor to the top of the screen to expose the menu bar. Click on the Spotlight icon (magnifying glass) and start inputting then click on the Automator icon once it appears.

Double-click Service (gear icon) as the "Type for your document." Alternatively, highlight "Service" with a single click, then click .

Click the double-headed arrow by This will expose the drop-down menu.

Change the drop-down menu selection from to . It should look like this:

Search in the left part of the window for

Double-click Alternatively, click and drag to the rightmost window that says "Drag actions or files here to build your workflow."

Open the drop-down menu by clicking the double-headed arrow.

Choose Terminal. If it is not in the drop-down list, select "Other" and type in Spotlight, then click .

Close and Save your new Automator file. Click the red radio button, give the file a recognisable name, and click .

Open You can find this by running the cursor to the bottom of the screen to expose the dock, then clicking on the set of gears. Alternatively, you can find in Spotlight.

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