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My iTerm 2 window is up against the menubar at the top of the screen.
When I resize the window vertically from the top to the bottom, a small gap is always left. It never resizes down fully to the bottom.
I think this is because it is only resizing within whole terminal rows and columns.
Is there anyway to stop this behaviour, I can't bear to look at this much longer ;)
jordelver
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 1 781
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I finally got the answer!
ref: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3375
Go to the following menu option:
Preferences - Advanced - Windows - Terminal Windows resize smoothly - Yes
Holding Control will temporarily disable snap-to-grid.
wklbeta
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 681
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Press "Control" while resizing will let you overcome the resizing limit. But this is still annoying because I have to manually resize after using BetterTouchTool's window snapping.
hunterhector
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 121
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I was suffering the same annoyance until today.
Open Preferences > Profiles > Text > Regular Font > Change Font and play with the font Size and/or Vertical Character Spacing. Test your changes by making an adjustment, resizing iTerm, making another adjustment, and rinse/repeat until the window size lands where you want. On my MBPr, using the Monaco font, a Size of 10 and Vertical Spacing of ~1.25 did the trick.
Edit—Another possible solution:
For the Default profile, open Window and set Settings for New Windows > Style to either Bottom of Screen or Top of Screen and Settings for New Windows > Columns to 134.
New iTerm window title bars will be hidden and iTerm will be flush to the menubar but it's not possible to resize or move the window without first dragging out the iTerm tab (mine are bottom alined so you can't see them in the screenshot) at which point the title bar reappears, taking us back to square one.
I was able to use a pre-made Moom preset to move the window into place without the title bar present; that's how in the following screenshot I got iTerm without title bar positioned on the right:
leoj
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 141
Thanks, nice workaround, but I don't want to change the font size ;)
I just think I'm going to have to live with the gap :( – jordelver – 2013-09-12T08:22:24.770
I edited in another possible solution to my answer. – leoj – 2013-09-12T19:08:18.867
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I found a good enough solution using El Capitan, with iTerm2 Build 2.1.4.
I already use spectacle for window snapping so I typically position my terminal horizontally using spectacle's keyboard shortcuts.
Then in iTerm2, I checked the box under General > Window > Zoom button maximizes vertically only.
From there clicking on the titlebar gets rid of the gaps above and below the iTerm window. I can also confirm that if you follow Step 3 for creating a Zoom keyboard shortcut this will also do what you'd expect.
Hope this helps!
am17torres
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 871
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If you set the default height of new windows to something like 999 rows, they fill up the screen vertically. Also uncheck these settings:
I always use iTerm in full screen. I have set Profiles > Window > Style to Fullscreen and unchecked General > Use Lion-style fullscreen windows (so there's no animations and ⌘H is not disabled). There is a bug where the menu bar is always shown in Resume'd custom full screen windows though.
Lri
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 34 501
Unfortunately, none of these options worked. Setting the window height to 999 still leaves a gap and the other options don't seem to have any affect :( I would like to use iTerm fullscreen, but I have dual monitors and it makes the second monitor unusable by blanking it out. – jordelver – 2013-04-12T21:34:49.470
I don't have two displays at the moment, but even if you don't use Lion-style full screen windows? There's also the 4 pixels taken up by the Dock. Disabling the Dock isn't really practical, but you can change desktop backgrounds (or the bottom parts) to black.
– Lri – 2013-04-13T10:22:43.9000
(iTerm2 Build 1.0.0.20131124@OS X Lion 10.7.5)
What I found out is that when I enable the toolbar I do not have any resizing issues (in addition I experience the same gap horizontally to the right of the window). But as soon as I disable the toolbar (View -> Toggle Toolbar) I can resize the window horizontally and vertically to the maximum without any gaps at the bottom/right side of it.
Feels like a bug, not a feature. :)
Saucier
Posted 2013-04-12T11:03:08.047
Reputation: 103
This was the perfect solution, I'm sure there's a reason it's not the default behavior but I wish it was. – Pablo – 2015-02-06T18:08:36.620