iTerm2: Stopping the inactive pane from dimming

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callumacrae picture callumacrae · Jan 21, 2014 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I'm using irssi in one pane and nicklist.pl in the other, and whenever I'm in the irssi pane, the nicklist pane is dimmed:

How do I stop the inactive pane from dimming?

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callumacrae picture callumacrae · Jan 21, 2014

Found it! There is a setting in Settings -> Appearance -> Dim inactive split panes. I would have quite liked to be able to set it for just the two profiles, but it doesn't matter that much.

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