angebtt/st

Angelo's fork of the based Luke's fork of the suckless simple terminal (st) with vim bindings and Xresource compatibility.

Angelo's notes for newbs

You should have xlib header files and libharfbuzz build files installed.

Note that scroll is automatically pulled and installed when you make this build of st.

Obviously, make is required to build. fontconfig is required for the default build, since it asks fontconfig for your system monospace font. It might be obvious, but libX11 and libXft are required as well. Chances are, you have all of this installed already.

Be sure to have a composite manager (xcompmgr, picom, etc.) running if you want transparency.

Some newbs are forced to use Ubuntu (like me) for scientific computing. To build this little toy make sure to install these:

sudo apt-get install -y libharfbuzz-dev
sudo apt install libx11-dev
sudo apt install libxft-dev

Then again ..

sudo make clean install

In order to run it, just use a script with the location of the terminal, or set it in i3 with some keybinding.

Features (Some with using dmenu)

• follow urls by pressing alt-l
• copy urls in the same way with alt-y
• copy the output of commands with alt-o
• scroll with alt-↑/↓ or alt-pageup/down or shift while scrolling the mouse (via scroll).
• OR vim-bindings: scroll up/down in history with alt-k and alt-j. Faster with alt-u/alt-d.
• zoom/change font size: same bindings as above, but holding down shift as well. alt-home returns to default
• copy text with alt-c, paste is alt-v or shift-insert
• Compatibility with Xresources and pywal for dynamic colors.
• Default gruvbox colors otherwise.
• Transparency/alpha, which is also adjustable from your Xresources.
• Default font is system "mono" at 14pt, meaning the font will match your system font.

Other st patches

• Boxdraw
• Ligatures
• font2
• updated to latest version 0.8.4

How to configure dynamically with Xresources

For many key variables, this build of st will look for X settings set in either ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources. You must run xrdb on one of these files to load the settings.

For example, you can define your desired fonts, transparency or colors:

*.font:	Liberation Mono:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:autohint=true;
*.alpha: 0.9
*.color0: #111
...

The alpha value (for transparency) goes from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque). There is an example Xdefaults file in this respository.

Colors

To be clear about the color settings:

• This build will use gruvbox colors by default and as a fallback.
• If there are Xresources colors defined, those will take priority.
• But if wal has run in your session, its colors will take priority.

Note that when you run wal, it will negate the transparency of existing windows, but new windows will continue with the previously defined transparency.

Notes on Emojis and Special Characters

If st crashes when viewing emojis, install libxft-bgra from the AUR.

Note that some special characters may appear truncated if too wide. You might want to manually set your prefered emoji/special character font to a lower size in the config.h file to avoid this. By default, JoyPixels is used at a smaller size than the usual text.