notchtc/st

personal build of st

st - simple terminal

IMPORTANT

Install libxft-bgra to not have crashes when emojis are displayed.

My personal build of st.

Requirements

In order to build st you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

Clone the repository and enter the directory.

git clone https://github.com/notchtc/st
cd st

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

Patches

• bold is not bright

• boxdraw

• blinking cursor

• clipboard

• copyurl

• font2

• open copied url

• scrollback

• sync

• xresources with signal reloading

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 <aurelien dot aptel at gmail dot com> bt source code.