NOTE: Stopped using st, currently using rxvt. My rxvt config

BeanGreen247's build of st - the simple (suckless) terminal

The suckless terminal (st) with some additional features that make it literally the best terminal emulator ever:

Unique features (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

Bindings for

• scrollback with alt-↑/↓ or alt-pageup/down or shift while scrolling the mouse
• 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

Pretty stuff

• Compatibility with Xresources and pywal for dynamic colors. The Xdefaults file shows a usage example.
• Default gruvbox colors otherwise.
• Transparency/alpha, which is also adjustable from your Xresources.
• Default font is system "mono" at 16pt, meaning the font will match your system font.

Other st patches

• Vertcenter
• Scrollback
• font2
• updated to latest version 0.8.2

Installation for newbs

Make sure to install these packages if you are on Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev fonts-inconsolata ubuntu-make

If on Arch Linux make sure to install base-devel.

sudo pacman -S base-devel

If on Debian 10 make sure to install these packages

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev fonts-inconsolata make

Instalation steps

git clone https://github.com/BeanGreen247/st
cd st
sudo make install
sudo cp Xresources ~/.Xresources && sudo cp Xdefaults ~/.Xdefaults && sudo cp bashrc ~/.bashrc
sudo xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Uninstall steps

cd st
sudo make uninstall

Some information

On OpenBSD, be sure to edit config.mk first and remove -lrt from the $LIBS before compiling.

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

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).

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.

How to apply changes

sudo xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Contact

All my contacts are on my website

• https://beangreen247.github.io/