Lantean

I’ve been using iTerm2 for few years, and everytime I need to setup a new install… I find myself looking up how to properly set it up.

So… about time to write this post! My settings would be…

1. Settings > Appearance > General > Theme
   • Set to Minimal
2. Settings > Profiles > Default
   • Colors
     • Defaults: Background to pitch black
   • Window
     • Transparency set to 20%
   • Keys > General
     • Left Option key: Esc +
     • This enables Option + Backspace to delete words
   • Keys > Key Bindings: New Shortcut for Option ←
     • Send Escape Sequence
     • Esc+ b
   • Keys > Key Bindings: New Shortcut for Option →
     • Send Escape Sequence
     • Esc+ f
3. Settings > Advanced > Session
   • Disable Session Restoration
   • Disable When restoring a session (…) draw a banner saying Session Contents Restored
4. Settings > Advanced
   • Disable
     Restore window contents at startup

Looks somehow like this:

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You’ll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you.

From now on, you’ll have no identifying marks of any kind. You will not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter.

You’re a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu, and dismissed just as quickly.

You don’t exist. You were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence, your native tongue.

You are no longer part of the system. You are above the system. Over it. Beyond it. We’re ‘them.’ We’re ‘they.’ We are (…)