St (Suckless Terminal)

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 libgd-dev

# Nix
nix develop github:siduck/st

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

# Install font-symbola and libXft-bgra

Try it out!

Before you install st on your system, you might want to try it out first. To do so, simply run (requires Nix) nix run github:siduck/st

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)

Using Nix flakes

Add st.url = "github:siduck/st"; to your inputs and install inputs.st.packages."${system}".st-snazzy package

Fonts

Install JetbrainsMono Mono Nerd Font or any nerd font from here

Patches:

Ligatures
sixel (check sixel branch)
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 )
live reload ( change colors/fonts on the fly ) and more...

New patches:

autocomplete (Complete the currently typed word using the other words visible in the st window)

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

Keybinding	Description
`ctrl + shift + k`	Zoom in
`ctrl + shift + j`	Zoom out
`ctrl + shift + home`	Reset Zoom
`ctrl + shift + c`	Copy
`ctrl + shift + v`	Paste
`alt + j`	Scroll down
`alt + k`	Scroll up
`ctrl + shift + return`	Open a new terminal with same cwd
`alt + l`	Follow urls
`alt + y`	Copy url
`alt + o`	Copy the output of commands
`alt + s`	Increase Transparency
`alt + a`	Decrease Transparency
`alt + m`	Reset Transparency

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

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