# 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](https://st.suckless.org/patches/font2/) - allows the
  definition of fallback fonts;
+ [desktopentry](https://st.suckless.org/patches/desktopentry/) - add
  desktop entry during installation;
+ [scrollback](https://st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback/) - enables
  buffer scrollback.
+ [boxdraw](https://st.suckless.org/patches/boxdraw/) - handles
  line/box/braille drawings
+ [ligatures](https://st.suckless.org/patches/ligatures/) - add ligature
  support

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

Installation
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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
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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
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Based on Aurélien APTEL <aurelien dot aptel at gmail dot com> bt source code.