iTerm2 slide down over full screen app

Question

I always have my IDE (phpStorm) in full screen mode (Yosemite).

I want my iTerm2 hotkey to slide my terminal window down over the IDE, so it doesn\'t open up a new spac

Answer 1

I'd like to propose an variant of Marc's answers. And Friedka's answer is not anymore up to date, some options were removed, some changed, I'm using iTerm Build 3.2.0beta4.

1. Create and assign a hotkey

   Preferences > Keys > Click Create Dedicated Hotkey Window

   1. Follow the instructions to set the hot key.
   2. Check pin hotkey window and floating window

2. Create a window arrangement

   That's where my answer differ, Marc's answer rely on making iTerm to start with hotkey profile per default, which may be cumbersome if you need a simple standard window. Instead this answer proposes to use iterm's window arrangement.

   1. So open a hotkey window
   2. Make sure all window with another profile (usually named Default) are closed. The only remaining active (hidden or not) window should be the Hotkey window.
   3. Save the arrangement, Window > Save Window Arrangement

   4. Make sure this arrangement is the default

      Preferences > Arrangements > Select the arrangement and click Set Default

   5. In the preference, make iterm starts with the default arrangement. :

      Preferences > General > Startup > Select Open Default Window Arrangement

3. Optionally tweak the hotkey window appearance