iTerm is at <http://iterm.sourceforge.net/> if you want to check it
out.

Alas, I'm not sure what you mean about vim—I'm a TextMate user myself,
with some experience in emacs. I'm afraid I don't know my way around
vi except for the most basic actions.

On Mar 23, 6:00 pm, doorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Eris! Your script did the trick :)
>
> In fact it seems that's exactly what's happening because I found out
> that QuickSilver is 'acting normal' when I run gnome-terminal from
> within Apple's Terminal.
>
> I also tried the steps suggested by Sesquipedalian with no luck -
> Spotlight shows up normally, while Quicksilver doesn't.
>
> Concerning the terminals part of the discussion, I use gnome-terminal
> for only one reason: it seems to be the only terminal (at least the
> only one I've tried) that can show me both the cursor line and the
> cursor column in vim :p
> Thank you for suggesting Dterm and iterm. I wanted to try the latter
> but macports gives me a build error :( But I guess I'll find them both
> elsewhere on the net.
>
> On Mar 23, 10:11 pm, Eris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Here's my best guess and it's probably right because I've run into
> > this before:
>
> > Quicksilver sees Gnome Terminal as a console application since it's
> > not in a bundle, so instead of calling LaunchServices to launch it
> > like you expect, it's telling the shell to run it and then waiting for
> > it to terminate.
>
> > If you trust me, here's a wrapper app I threw together with Platypus
> > that you can invoke with Quicksilver instead of invoking gnome-
> > terminal directly: <http://is.gd/aUMUW>. If you don't trust me, I'll
> > be glad to show you the script and let you make your own Platypus
> > wrapper. :)
>
> > The wrapper app will look for gnome-terminal in /sw/bin, /opt/local/
> > bin and /usr/local/bin by default and launch the first one it finds.
> > If you need it to look somewhere else, you can edit `Info.plist`—there
> > is an Environment Variables section that includes TD_COMMAND, TD_PATH
> > and TD_ARGS. Deleting the TD_PATH variable will cause it to look in
> > your PATH instead. Hope this helps.
>
> > On Mar 23, 9:30 am, doorman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hello guys!
>
> > > I'm a Linux guy who recently switched to Mac. As such, I still have an
> > > addiction to Linux tools. Concretely, I don't find Apple's Terminal
> > > suits my needs, so I installed gnome-terminal (yeah, it's a bit of an
> > > overkill, I know...). The strange thing is, once I open it up,
> > > Quicksilver just stops working... Well, not really actually. It seems
> > > that it "waits" until I close all the gnome-terminals I opened after
> > > which it magically shows up. What's more, if I press the shortcut (cmd-
> > > space for me) more than once - let's say 5 times, after closing the
> > > terminal I can see Quicksilver appear-disappear 5 times. Bizarre.
>
> > > Gnome-terminal is the only app that seems to be blocking Quicksilver.
> > > If I open up xterm instead, Quicksilver continues to behave properly.
> > > I looked through all gnome-terminal's shortcuts, and there's not even
> > > one shortcut involving the space key (let alone the "super" key).
>
> > > Any ideas?

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