st

St (Suckless Terminal)

Xresources live-reload demo

Dependencies

# Void
xbps-install libXft-devel libX11-devel harfbuzz-devel libXext-devel libXrender-devel libXinerama-devel gd-devel

# Debian (and ubuntu probably)
apt install build-essential libxft-dev libharfbuzz-dev libgd-dev

# Nix
nix develop github:siduck/st

# Arch
pacman -S gd

# Fedora (or Red-Hat based)
dnf install gd-devel libXft-devel

# SUSE (or openSUSE)
zypper in -t pattern devel_basis
zypper in gd-devel libXft-devel harfbuzz-devel

# 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
(change the compiler if you cant use c99 to compile: sed -i 's/^#\ CC\ =\ c99/CC=gcc/' config.mk)
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 )
• st-swapmouse

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

• live-reload
• patch_column