Open hotkey window on the screen with cursor

Open a the hotkey window event should open the window on the screen where the cursor is located. If I hide the window and move the cursor to a new screen and press the hotkey it will reappear on the new screen.

Milestone changed to Future Release

This would be awesome. I was rather confused that this wasn't working and dug deeper and realized it was just related to the "Hotkey Window." It works as expected with other windows (even ones that are set to be attached to windows), but only for new windows, not showing/hiding existing windows.

@george: Do you have any beta with this feature? Really missing this helpful feature.

Sorry, this has not been implemented yet, but I'll bump it for 3.1 since I want to focus on hotkey window support in that release.

Milestone changed to Feature Complete 3.1

mentioned in issue #3947 (closed)

now there is an option that Allow to do it but it doesn't work:

mentioned in issue #4007 (closed)

@visik7 I opened a new issue for your comment. See #4296 (closed)

I wish the hotkey window worked the way TotalTerminal[1] hotkey window works (i.e. reliably appear with the designated options).

Sometimes after the machine sleeps, the hotkey window moves from external monitor to LCD panel - and its impossible to move back without closing and reopening the hotkey window.

Also it would be nice if the hotkey window would drop down as a fullscreen overlay rather than using OS X's fullscreen mode - otherwise you're subject to constant switching back and forth between multiple desktops (Im a developer, so Im testing in a browser but then have to switch to another desktop to edit code in iTerm, then bounce back to the original desktop after I hide iTerm).

[1] The TotalTerminal site even recommends iTerm as a replacement (though I would argue the problems above don't make it a drop-in replacement just yet :-)

mentioned in issue #4609 (closed)

I can confirm that follow cursor behaviour is working as expected in the latest nightly version of iTerm2 Build 3.0.20170103-nightly downloaded from https://iterm2.com/downloads/nightly/iTerm2-3_0_20170103-nightly.zip.

Now it feels like I have Visor again :) I disabled an option to open the window on startup and use hotkey to bring hotkey window up.

closed

But this IS NOT working in build 3.1.20170227-nightly. I have two macs setup with identical settings and different builds. One works on build 3.0.20170106-nightly. Latest nightly doesn't.

@blakebarber I don't have a multi-monitor setup handy. Can you share your $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist from the machine where it doesn't work? A debug log would also be very helpful if you can make one. Instructions are at https://iterm2.com/debuglog. Thanks.

@gnachman

• https://gitlab.com/snippets/1639224
• https://gitlab.com/snippets/1639226

@blakebarber Thanks for the debug log. Was a bug with non-animated hotkey windows. Fixed in commit 51c23f61.

@gnachman Thanks! iTerm saves my life!