# Possible To Use iTerm Instead of Terminal on OS X to run Julia?

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**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/possible-to-use-iterm-instead-of-terminal-on-os-x-to-run-julia/52601 "2020-12-30T05:08:03Z")\
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> [@Open Julia in iTerm2 by default, instead of Terminal](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/open-julia-in-iterm2-by-default-instead-of-terminal/8643):
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> I installed Julia on macOS High Sierra (10.13.3) with brew cask install julia, and it opens in Apple Terminal by default. I am completely new to AppleScript, so I don’t know how to change the default behavior of Julia so that it opens in iTerm2 by default. (App ID - com.googlecode.iterm2). This is the script for starting Julia: set RootPath to POSIX path of (path to me) tell application id "com.apple.terminal" do script ("exec '" & RootPath & "Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia'") activate …

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