the alpha for Leopard seems a bit buggy, but it's really great to have a instant terminal everytime, especially, as the last person said, with Rails

The new version is fantastic in Leopard. Even supports tabs.

This just transformed my Rails development workflow.

Seems interesting, but the Quartz animation don't work for me... Maybe I'll again later with the instructions and comments from http://blog.bitxtender.com/2006/11/04/the-perfect-visor/

Ugh, screwed the comment up below, please mod it spam. Here it is corrected:

Oh in the comment below, I've assumed you're following the instructions from wombert's link below. If you're not then use this command for the top-left key binding instead (it doesn't make a tidle on my mac):

defaults write com.apple.Terminal VisorHotKey -dict keyCode -int 10 modifiers -int 256

You can just press any key in the visor preferences with a modifier key, then open the correct preference file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.VisorTerminal or com.apple.Terminal as appropriate) with Property List Editor and change the VisorHotKey/modifiers value to 256 to remove the need to press the modifier key more than likely, if you wanted a different key.

To make it bind to just the Tidle key:

defaults write com.apple.VisorTerminal VisorHotKey -dict keyCode -int 10 modifiers -int 256

If you get a program called Dockless (first hit on google, also on osx.iusethis.com) then you can make the VisorTerminal not show up in the dock too. Perfecto :)

http://blog.bitxtender.com/2006/11/04/the-perfect-visor/ has instructions on how to make Visor independent of Terminal running, without a dock icon etc.

I switched from using Visor to just making a hotkey trigger in Quicksilver for 'Terminal.app' 'Toggle Application'.

aha. A "touch Terminal.app" did the trick. Damn caches.

Stridey, I could not get that trick to work :( Added
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at the bottom of the tag, but the terminal.app icon still shows up. Any tips?

Cool. Very cool.
Although for some reason, irssi sessions running in this get mangled.

I would like to be able to use just tilde to pull it down, but I guess I have to use option-tilde - it won't let me have no modifier keys.

Oh, and when you accidentally pull it down, when you're not expecting it, and see the darkness scrolling down, you might mistake it for a kernel panic :)