The suckless terminal (st) with some additional features that make it literally the best terminal emulator ever:
alt-l
alt-y
alt-o
alt-↑/↓
or alt-pageup/down
or shift
while scrolling thealt-k
and alt-j
.alt-u
/alt-d
.alt-home
returns to defaultalt-c
, paste is alt-v
or shift-insert
Xresources
and pywal
for dynamic colors.Xresources
.You should have xlib header files and libharfbuzz build files installed.
git clone https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st
cd st
sudo make install
Obviously, make
is required to build. fontconfig
is required for the
default build, since it asks fontconfig
for your system monospace font. It
might be obvious, but libX11
and libXft
are required as well. Chances are,
you have all of this installed already.
On OpenBSD, be sure to edit config.mk
first and remove -lrt
from the
$LIBS
before compiling.
Be sure to have a composite manager (xcompmgr
, picom
, etc.) running if you
want transparency.
For many key variables, this build of st
will look for X settings set in
either ~/.Xdefaults
or ~/.Xresources
. You must run xrdb
on one of these
files to load the settings.
For example, you can define your desired fonts, transparency or colors:
*.font: Liberation Mono:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:autohint=true;
*.alpha: 0.9
*.color0: #111
...
The alpha
value (for transparency) goes from 0
(transparent) to 1
(opaque). There is an example Xdefaults
file in this respository.
To be clear about the color settings:
wal
has run in your session, its colors will take priority.Note that when you run wal
, it will negate the transparency of existing windows, but new windows will continue with the previously defined transparency.