Snow Leopard hide scrollbar in terminal?

Is there a way to get rid of the scrollbar in Terminal.app in SN (it worked with earlier versions of OSX, but so far I didn't get it working on 10.6)

Nils

Posted 2010-08-20T18:07:58.890

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This other question has a good answer without having to get a different product http://superuser.com/questions/418990/scroll-bar-on-os-x-lion-terminal-wont-go-away

– Hector Correa – 2014-08-07T21:15:11.363

FYI: I've always wanted this myself, so I just took a quick look at the plist. No relevant option seems to be there. – Telemachus – 2010-08-23T00:08:07.400

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iTerm is a free Terminal replacement for OS X and it lets you hide the scroll bar. Has a bunch of other features Terminal.app doesn't have as well (tabs, bookmarks, transparency, etc.).

Ian C.

Posted 2010-08-20T18:07:58.890

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There is also an alpha release of iTerm2: http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/

– Telemachus – 2010-09-04T13:37:54.627

How stable is that release? I was looking at that the other day. The alpha tag scared me off. But I like the idea of switching to, supporting, a alt terminal that is actually developed. iTerm feels pretty much abandoned these days. – Ian C. – 2010-09-09T18:31:37.790

As of OS X Lion 10.7 scrollbars can be hidden system-wide, including in Terminal, with

System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars

If you have a “touch” input device, like a trackpad or Magic Mouse, they are hidden by default.

Chris Page

Posted 2010-08-20T18:07:58.890

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You can copy Terminal app from an old OS X version (source). You could also try editing the interface NIB file.

Edit: I'm not certain the NIB approach would work, but I think that is where interface elements are defined.

user31752

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I don't know anything about Cocoa apps. Care to share where an application's NIB file would live? Thanks. – Telemachus – 2010-08-23T00:10:48.470

NIB files can be edited as described here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20081121083323825. I'd start by looking at the Terminal.app NIB here: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/TTWindow.nib But as my edited comment suggests, this is just a guess and would be a considerable hack if it did work...

– None – 2010-08-23T00:38:17.527

I just took a look inside all of the nib files in the resource folder and none have a scrollbar. TTWindow just has a blank window and some menus... scrollbar is probably done programmtically. I don't know. – Vervious – 2010-08-23T01:01:47.373

Try LionScrollbars. It's the only thing that worked for me. Works like a charm under 10.8.2.

devios1

Posted 2010-08-20T18:07:58.890

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