Built-in Terminal

What This Does#

Most file managers leave you to manually cd into the right folder when you switch from the GUI to a terminal. That's a small annoyance fifty times a day. Seiz skips it: hit one shortcut and your preferred terminal app opens already in the folder you were just looking at.

Seiz doesn't embed its own terminal — it launches whichever terminal app you already use, with all your shell config, aliases, themes, and tools intact. Whether that's the stock Terminal.app or a custom Warp setup, your existing workflow keeps working.

Opening It#

• Keyboard: press ⌘⌥T (Command + Option + T) anywhere in Seiz.
• Right-click: right-click a folder (or empty space inside one) and choose Open Terminal Here.
• Command Bar: press ⌘K, type “Terminal,” and hit Enter.

All three options launch your terminal app pointed at the active pane's current folder.

Supported Terminal Apps#

Pick which terminal app to launch in Settings ▸ Navigation. Five options, ranked by how Seiz hands off the folder:

• Terminal — the macOS default. Always works, no install needed.
• iTerm 2 — the most popular Mac terminal for power users. Seiz opens the folder in the current iTerm session if one is open, otherwise launches it fresh.
• Warp — the modern AI-assisted terminal. Launched with the working directory set on the command line.
• Alacritty — minimal, GPU-accelerated. Same launch mechanism as Warp.
• Kitty — fast, feature-rich. Same launch mechanism as Warp.

When Things Don't Work#

If you pick a terminal app you don't actually have installed (e.g. Warp without Warp installed), Seiz tells you instead of silently failing. Install the app or pick a different one in Settings.

Next Steps#

• Command Bar — open the terminal (and most other things) without touching the mouse.
• Context Menu — every right-click action, including Open Terminal Here.
• Keyboard Shortcuts — full list of shortcuts in Seiz.