- Qt Creator Documentation
- Open a terminal
- Qt Creator 20.0.0

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# Open a terminal

To open the Terminal view:

- Go to View > Output, and then select Terminal.
- Select the Terminal output view.
- Select Alt+5 (or Cmd+5 on macOS).
- Select Run in Terminal in Projects > Run Settings for an application, and then run the application.
- Select the Open Terminal button in Projects > Build Settings > Build Environment.

## View output in the terminal

- To select a word in a terminal, double-click it.
- To select the whole line, triple-click it.
- To select all text, select Select All in the context menu or select Ctrl+A.
- To open links in a browser, files in the editor, or folders in the Projects view, hover over them, and select Ctrl.
- To search through the output, select Ctrl+F.

## Run Qt Creator commands from the terminal

To use the `qtc` command-line options in the terminal, enter:

     qtc [option] [filename[:line_number[:column_number]]]

To view the options, enter:

     qtc -help

## Insert Qt Creator variables

To insert expanded values of Qt Creator variables into the terminal, select them in the Insert Macro Variable list.

## Set keyboard shortcut preferences

Most of the Qt Creator keyboard shortcuts are disabled in the terminal, except the ones for opening terminal preferences or the locator and quitting Qt Creator. To keep Qt Creator keyboard shortcuts from interfering in the terminal, select .

To send the escape key to the terminal instead of closing the terminal, select Shift+Esc. To set this as default behavior, go to Preferences > Terminal > Block shortcuts in terminal.

## Run terminal in a separate window

To open the terminal in a separate window, go to Preferences > Terminal, and clear Use internal terminal.

## Use system terminal on Linux and macOS

On Linux and macOS, you can set the terminal to open by selecting Preferences > Environment > System.

See also Use Qt Creator variables, View output, Command-line options, and Keyboard shortcuts.