Is there a keyboard shortcut hotkey to open Terminal in macOS

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One of my primary tools used for programming is my Terminal  It makes my programming process more efficient when I m able to quickly open a Terminal window   In Ubuntu  I was using  window Alt T  to open Terminal  But now I use a Macbook at my programming job    Sometimes I use Spotlight to search  Terminal   and press Enter   I d like to know if I can assign a keyboard hotkey to do it   Thanks

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As programmers we want the quickest  most fool-proof way to get our tools in order so we can start hacking  Here are how I got it to work in MacOS 10 13 1  High Sierra       Option 1  Go to System Preferences   Keyboard   Shortcut   Services   Under Files and Folders section  enable New Terminal at Folder  and or New Terminal Tab at Folder and assign a shortcut key to it    Option 2  If you want the shortcut key to work anywhere  create a new Service using Automator  then go to the Keyboard Shortcut to assign a shortcut key to it  Known limitation  not work from the desktop     Notes     If the shortcut doesn t work  it might be in conflict with another key binding  and the OS wouldn t warn you   try something else  e g  if   T doesn t work  try   T  Don t spell-correct MacOS  that s not necessary

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iTerm2 - an alternative to Terminal - has an option to use configurable system-wide hotkey to show hide  initially set to Alt Space  disabled by default

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I tested the following procedure under macOS Mojave 10 14 6  18G3020    Launch Automator  Create a document of type    Quick Action         In older versions of macOS  use the    Service    template    In the new Automator document  add a    Run AppleScript    action   You can type    run applescript    into the search field at the top of the action list to find it   Here s the AppleScript to paste into the action   on run  input  parameters      tell application  Terminal          if it is running then             do script            end if         activate     end tell end run   Set the    Workflow receives    popup to    no input     It should look like this overall     Save the document with the name    New Terminal     Then go to the Automator menu  or the app menu in any running application  and open the Services submenu  You should now see the    New Terminal    quick action     If you click the    New Terminal    menu item  you ll get a dialog box     Click OK to allow the action to run  You ll see this dialog once in each application that s frontmost when you use the action  In other words  the first time you use the action while Finder is frontmost  you ll see the dialog  And the first time you use the action while Safari is frontmost  you ll see the dialog  And so on   After you click OK in the dialog  Terminal should open a new window   To assign a keyboard shortcut to the quick action  choose the    Services Preferences       item from the Services menu   Or launch System Preferences  choose the Keyboard pane  then choose the Shortcuts tab  then choose Services from the left-hand list   Scroll to the bottom of the right-hand list and find the New Terminal service  Click it and you should see an    Add Shortcut     button     Click the button and press your preferred keyboard shortcut  Then  scratch your head  because  when I tried it  the Add Shortcut button reappears  But click the button again and you should see your shortcut     Now you should be able to press your keyboard shortcut in most circumstances to get a new terminal window

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Try command   t  It works for me

[macos] Is there a keyboard shortcut (hotkey) to open Terminal in macOS?

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