- Open Automator.app and choose “Quick Action”.
- Set “Workflow receives current” to “no input” (last item in dropdown menu).
- Under Actions > Library > Utilities; drag “Run AppleScript” into the Workflow Builder area.
- Type in:
on run {input, parameters} tell application "Terminal" reopen activate end tell end run
- Save the file as something like: “Open Terminal”, and quit the Automator.app.
- In System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services; select “General” and scroll to the end of the list; under General. Here you’ll should see “Open Terminal” (or whatever you called it when saving the Quick Action in Automator.app) …
- Click the “Add shortcut button” and type your preferred shortcut (Cmd + Alt + x).