st - simple terminal

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.
This is a patched version of the suckless software.

Patches

• ligatures
• dynamic cursor color
• bold is not bright
• blinking-cursor
• xresources
• anysize
• alpha
• alpha focus patch
• fixdel
• scrollback-mouse-altscreen-increment
• fix for horizontal text resizing
• font2
• wide-glyphs-fix
• newterm

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.