st - simple terminal

This is a clone of suckless.org the coolest terminal client st. Light, stable, simple and fast. tmux brings in all other needed features.

Customizations

• Inconsolata font usage.
• solarized dark color scheme.
• transparency support added.

Screen

Requirements

In order to build st you need:

• Xlib header files - location of these might differ, edit config.mk
• xft lib headers.
• Inconsolata.ttf fonts, unless you change it in config.h

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (st is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

NOTE: to have unicode character support, install freetype2 library headers.

NOTE: ranger file manager may not preview images well, when having transparency enabled.

Transparency

You need to run compton or xcompmgr in order to have transparent terminal.

Ubuntu required libraries

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

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

make clean install

NOTE concerning inconsolata font changes, recently it got bold font support and if you had hinstyle set to none it should not make any impact. Otherwise you may need to set it to none.

Running st

If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -s st.info

Run it with tmux:

st -e tmux

See the man page for additional details.

Credits

Based on Aurélien APTEL bt source code.