/st

Personal fork of siduck/st

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

St (Suckless Terminal)

This is a personal fork of siduck/st.

Xresources live-reload demo



Dependencies

# Void 
xbps-install libXft-devel libX11-devel harfbuzz-devel libXext-devel libXrender-devel libXinerama-devel
 
# Debian (and ubuntu probably)
apt install build-essential libxft-dev libharfbuzz-dev 

(most of these are already installed on Arch based distros)

# Install font-symbola and libXft-bgra

Install

git clone https://github.com/siduck/st.git
cd st
sudo make install 
xrdb merge pathToXresourcesFile

(note : put the xrdb merge command in your wm's autostart or similar)

Fonts

  • Install JetbrainsMono Mono Nerd Font or any nerd font from here

Patches:

  • Ligatures
  • scrollback
  • Clipboard
  • Alpha(Transparency)
  • Boxdraw
  • patch_column ( doesnt cut text while resizing)
  • font2
  • right click paste
  • st desktop entry
  • newterm
  • anygeometry
  • xresources
  • sync patch ( Better draw timing to reduce flicker/tearing and improve animation smoothness )
  • w3m hack
  • live reload ( change colors/fonts on the fly ) and more...

Xresources live-reload

# make an alias for this command

alias rel="xrdb merge pathToXresourcesFile && kill -USR1 $(pidof st)"

Ram usage comparison with other terminals and speed test







( note : This benchmark was done on my low end machine which has a pentium cpu so the speed results might vary )

Default Keybindings

ctrl + shift + c        Copy  
ctrl + shift + v Paste
right click on the terminal ( will paste the copied thing ) (Zoom) alt + comma Zoom in
alt + . Zoom out
alt + g Reset Zoom
(Transparency) alt + s Increase Transparency
alt + a Decrease Transparency
alt + m Reset Transparency
alt + k scroll down alt + j scroll up mod + shift + enter open a new terminal with same cwd ( current working directory )

you can change all of these in config.h

Themes/Fonts used

  • ls-icons: https://github.com/Yash-Handa/logo-ls
  • Xresources: onedark ( just xrdb merge xresourcesfile , do this everytime you make any change to xresources file ) from this repo itself.
  • Font: JetbrainsMono Nerd Font + material design icon fonts

Screenshots:









Credits