st - simple terminal

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.

Notes about this fork

This is a fork of st, the original repo can be found here: https://git.suckless.org/st/ The original st webpage is here: https://st.suckless.org/

Patches applied

• Alpha : This patch allows users to change the opacity of the background. Note that you need an X composite manager (e.g. compton, xcompmgr) to make this patch effective.
• Clipboard : This trivial patch sets CLIPBOARD on selection.
• font2 : This patch allows to add spare font besides default.
• Fix Keyboard Input : Add a few previously undefined keys.

Applying/Removing Patches

# Add custom patch
patch -Np1 -i patches/custom.diff
or
patch < patch.diff

# Remove st-alpha-201806-16-0.81 patch
patch -R patches/st-alpha-20180616-0.8.1.diff

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.

Keyboard

Action	Key Combination
Copy	ctrl + shift + c
Paste	ctrl + shift + v
Zoom In	alt + shift + +
Zoom Out	alt + shift + -
Reset Zoom	alt + shift + 0

Credits

• Forked from https://st.suckless.org/
• Based on Aurélien APTEL aurelien.aptel@gmail.com bt source code.