Today, spurred on by this post [1] ,I made my Leopard terminal nicer to work with.

Problem

1. The Apple default terminal themes are ugly.

2. The Leopard terminal doesn’t provide an easy shortcut for jumping between tabs. (It only has next-tab and previous-tab shortcuts. I want to use ⌘1-9 to jump to any of my terminal tabs).

Solution

1. Download and install SIMBL [2].

2. Download Ciarán Walsh’s SIMBL bundle [3] for terminal colors.

3. Also download the tab-switching bundle [4]. This allows you to switch between tabs in the terminal using ⌘1-9.

4. Install these by copying TerminalColours.bundle and TerminalTabSwitching.bundle to /Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins/ (I had to copy them to /Library rather than ~/Library to get them to work).

5. Set the CLICOLOR environment variable to 1. E.g. In one of your startup files such as ~/.bash_profile, put export CLICOLOR=1;

6. Get and install Todd Werth’s IR_black theme [5].