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OVERVIEW

This directory contains st, a simple terminal emulator for X that is based on Aurélien APTEL (<aurelien dot aptel at gmail dot com>) bt source code.

This st distribution is a fork of suckless' st version 0.8.4 with the following patches:

  • clipboard
  • copyurl
  • open copied url
  • vim browse
  • xresources

See git log for further differences.

The original sources can be downloaded from:

  1. https://git.suckless.org/st (git)
  2. https://dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.4.tar.gz (tarball)
  3. https://st.suckless.org/patches/ (patches)

REQUIREMENTS

Build time

  • C99 compiler
  • POSIX sh(1p), make(1p) and "mandatory utilities"
  • libX11
  • fontconfig
  • freetype2
  • ncurses is optional, for compiling terminfo entry

INSTALL

The shell commands make && make install should build and install this package. See config.mk file for configuration parameters.

st can be customized by creating a custom config.h file and (re)compiling the source code.

BUGS

If you find a program that complains that st is unknown/not recognised/unsupported/etc, try to compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -sx st.info

Also, by the following make target:

make terminfo-entry

See terminfo(5) for additional details.

LICENSE

st is licensed through MIT/X Consortium License. See LICENSE file for copyright and license details.