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

# 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...
  

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:

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Credits

• live-reload
• patch_column