st - simple terminal

Fork of the suckless terminal (st) with additional patches.

Applied Patches:

• scrollback
• xresources
• disable bold italic fonts
• anygeometry
• blinkingcursor
• font2
• boxdraw
• right click to plumb

Requirements

In order to build st you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

git clone https://gitlab.com/feloniousbonk/st-bonk.git 

Clone this repository into desired directory e.g. ~/.local/share/ or ~/.config/

Enter the following command to build and install st:

sudo make clean install

After installation, the file config.h will be created, you can use this file for any further configuration and simply run the command:

sudo make install

and this will recompile st with your updated changes. You can keep config.def.h as is, so you always have the inital configuration file on hand if needed.

NOTE: There are several different ways to manage config files; some people use config.def.h for making changes and create a new config.h file each time; If you choose this way make sure to remove config.h and then create the new one before recompiling like so:

rm config.h

sudo make config.h

sudo make install

do whatever works best for you!

Xresources

Take config.h/config.def.h out of the equation!

Various options can be configured from ~/.Xresources using the syntax st.option: value :

• font
• color0 to color15
• foreground
• background
• cursor - cursor color
• reverseCursor - reverse cursor color
• termname
• shell
• xfps - frames per second st should at maximum draw to the screen
• actionfps
• blinktimeout - terminal blinking attribute (set to 0 to disable blinking)
• bellvolume
• tabspaces
• borderpx
• cwscale - Kerning / character bounding-box multipliers
• chscale
• disablebold
• disableitalic
• disableroman

After updating ~/.Xresources, remember to execute the command:

xrdb ~/.Xresources

or else your changes will not show up.

NOTE: If you already have a ~/.Xresources file, any universal variables you have may affect st upon installation.

For example: *.foreground: #FFFFFF will make your foreground color white even though it does not have the prefix st, such as: st.foreground: #FFFFFF.

* I have supplied a pre-configured .Xresources file with this fork. Move the file to your $HOME directory if you wish to use it.

Right click to plumb

Inspired by plan9’s acme and plumber: right-click some selected text to send it to the plumbing program of your choosing:

• open an URL in a browser
• view an image, PDF, …
• jump from logs to editor, at the specified line/col
• etc

You can set the config.h variable (static char *plumber_cmd = " ") to execute your custom command, The default is "xdg-open %s", which opens a file or URL in the user’s preferred application.

Font2

This patch allows you to configure a secondary font. This can be used to display glyphs that may not be present in your primary font. In this fork your primary font is set as Liberation Mono. And Font2 is set as mono so it will match your system font. Change the variable static char *font2 in config.h to whatever glyph supporting font you want.

To search what fonts you have enter the following command:

fc-list :fontformat=TrueType -f "%{family}\n" | sort -u | less

NOTE: Fira Code fonts work well for Font2 in my experience. | Package: ttf-fira-code on Arch-based systems.

Disable Bold and Italic fonts

Get rid of bold, italic, and roman fonts for a cleaner looking prompt by setting the following config.h variables to (1):

• int disablebold = 1;

• int disableitalic = 1;

• int disableroman = 1;

* set to (0) to enable each if desired.

Blinking cursor

Edit: (static unsigned int cursorshape = [1-6]) in your config.h file to set any of the following cursors:

1. Blinking Block (“█”)
2. Block (“█”)
3. Blinking Underline (“_”)
4. Underline (“_”)
5. Blinking Bar (“|”)
6. Bar (“|”)

AnyGeometry

set st’s width and height as pixels instead of cells, both from the command line:

st -G [width]x[height]

or the config.h file variables:

• static Geometry geometry = PixelGeometry;

• static unsigned int width = x;

• static unsigned int height = x;

* set (static Geometry geometry = CellGeometry;) to set size by cell instead of pixels.

Scrollback

Scrollback is still in an experimental state in st. You may experience some buggy behavior, but it is still nice to have and works well 99% of the time, so I included it.

NOTE: If you are experiencing weird scrolling issues while in insert mode in vim/nvim. copy and paste this into your vimrc file:

 if $TERM ==# 'st-256color'
      set mouse=a
      map <ScrollWheelUp> <C-Y>
      map <ScrollWheelDown> <C-E>
  endif

Desktop Entry

The shell script desktopentry.sh is a quick and dirty shell script that creates a st.desktop file @ ~/.local/share/applications and installs it to your system, without having to patch st itself. This allows st to be accessible from your desktop/application launcher

Requirements:

• desktop-file-utils

run by entering:

bash ./desktopentry.sh

NOTE: There is a patch for this already, If you’d rather use that you can patch it to st by saving the .diff file into your st directory and entering the command:

patch -p1 < 'patch-file-name.diff'

* ALWAYS back up your build before attempting a patch.

Thanks

Thanks to Suckless.org for creating Simple terminal

Thanks to AUR for Blinking cursor patch