st - simple terminal

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

About this fork

NOTE:

• I am tracking the upstream suckless code in a separate branch called 'suckless'. My commits are always on the top.
• I reorganize the commits time to time to keep things in order, so if you want to use my fork, remember to use git pull --force to update.

Patches and changes applied in this fork, my changes and comments see the commit messages:

• alpha
• scrollback, All the scroll patches, plus Shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll a whole page
• xresources
• externalpipe
• hidecursor
• Added a desktop entry file
• Disabled size hint, i.e. resize by 1 pixel instead of a character
• Some customizations in config.def.h

Requirements

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

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.