st - simple terminal

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.

This is a WIP fork of Suckless' awesome ST, with some added features built-in:

• Kept mostly in sync with upstream branch
• Number of rows and columns are read from Xresources
• Custom history size via Xresources
• Added skiptaskbar and skippager XResources options
• Added support for Xorg fullscreen mode via F11 key
• For desktops with a dock (e.g. GNOME) an hardcoded RGBA icon is provided
• Many other fixes here and there

This forks builds upon the offical ST release already patched with these st-patches:

• st background alpha
• clipboard support (xclip)
• externalpipe
• spoiler
• allows to disable bold and italic fonts
• scrollback and mouse scrollback
• vertcenter
• relativeborder
• support loading options from xresources
• boxdraw
• sync patch

Requirements

In order to build st you need the Xlib header files. For the alpha patch, you also need XRender.

Additional required packages:

• w3m
• xurls
• dmenu

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (st is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install st (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running st

If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -sx st.info

See the man page for additional details.

Credits

Based on Aurélien APTEL bt source code.