A personal fork of st - the suckless terminal
Patches
Look at the commit history for more details on how/why these patches were applied.
- font2 - allows the definition of fallback fonts;
- desktopentry - add desktop entry during installation;
- scrollback - enables buffer scrollback.
- boxdraw - handles line/box/braille drawings
- ligatures - add ligature support
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.
Credits
Based on Aurélien APTEL