st - simple terminal

Fork of the suckless terminal (st) with additional patches.

Applied Patches:

• scrollback
• xresources
• boxdraw
• right click to plumb

Requirements

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

Installation

Copy and edit config.def.h to config.h to configure st.

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install st (if necessary as root):

make clean install

or you can install it from the AUR.

Xresources

Various options can be configured from ~/.Xresources using the syntax st.option: value:

• font
• color0 to color15
• foreground
• background
• cursor - cursor color
• reverseCursor - reverse cursor color
• termname
• shell
• xfps - frames per second st should at maximum draw to the screen
• actionfps
• blinktimeout - blinking timeout (set to 0 to disable blinking) for the terminal blinking attribute
• bellvolume
• tabspaces
• borderpx
• cwscale - Kerning / character bounding-box multipliers
• chscale

Right click to plumb

When you right click the selected text will be plumbed to the set command, if no text is selected then the word below the cursor will be automatically selected.

You can set the command to execute in the config.h, it defaults to xdg-open %s.

You have to include %s in the command, it will be substituted with the selected text.