Because Luke is AWESOME!!!
The suckless terminal (st) with some additional features that make it literally the best terminal emulator ever:
- follow urls by pressing
alt-l
- copy urls in the same way with
alt-y
- copy the output of commands with
alt-o
- scrollback with
alt-↑/↓
oralt-pageup/down
orshift
while scrolling the mouse - OR vim-bindings: scroll up/down in history with
alt-k
andalt-j
. Faster withalt-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 isalt-v
orshift-insert
- Compatibility with
Xresources
andpywal
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.
- Vertcenter
- Scrollback
- font2
- updated to latest version 0.8.2
git clone https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st
cd st
sudo make install
Users of Arch-based distros can also install it from the AUR as st-luke-git.
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.
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
, picom
, etc.) running if you want transparency.
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).
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.
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.
- Luke Smith luke@lukesmith.xyz
- https://lukesmith.xyz