My build of st

My own build of st, with the patches I use and a few features brought over from Luke Smith's build.

Requirements

I'd recommend using a nerd font (mononoki in my case) which you can set in xresources or in config.h, I've been using the v2.0 release since later versions have caused me problems with polybar before. If you don't, st will default to using your system's default mono font. For a backup font (possible thanks the the fong2 patch), this build uses Noto Color Emoji, so grab that too. If you want to use different fonts, just change them in config.h. For emojis and some other unicode characters to work in st, you'll need libxft-bgra from the AUR. You'll also need libX11, libXft as well as make, but any normal linux user will already have these installed.

Installation

Just clone and make:

git clone https://github.com/ehewins/st
cd st
sudo make clean install

Features

• Can be configured via Xresources, useful for changing your colour scheme without having to recompile.
• Scroll using ctrl-shift-j/k/ctrl-shift-↑/↓ or ctrl-shift-u/d for faster scrolling.
• Zoom using alt-shift-j/k.
• Actually displays an icon in tint2, thanks to the netwmicon patch
• Open a new terminal in the current working directory with ctrl-shift-enter
• Luke Smith's externalpipe scripts:
  • Follow urls using alt-shift-l
  • Copy urls to clipboard using alt-shift-y
  • Copy the output of commands to clipboard using alt-shift-o
• Copying and pasting highlighted text is done with ctrl-shift-c/v

Installed Patches

• anysize
• bold-is-not-bright
• boxdraw_v2
• externalpipe and externalpipe-eternal
• font2
• glyph-wide-support
• netwmicon
• newterm
• scrollback
• xresources + some fixes (see patches folder)