st - simple terminal

Nimai's fork of the simple terminal

Build

$ cd ~/some/where
$ git clone https://github.com/nimaipatel/st.git
$ cd st
$ sudo make clean install && make clean

Features

• Live reload colors and font for terminal sessions (kinda like alacritty) using signals and Xresources -- check out this reddit post (credits)
• Quickly copy the output of a shell command with alt+o (credits)
• Open URLs in the web browser with alt+l and copy them to your clipboard with alt+c
• Transparent background -- requires a compositor, I use this fork of picom which also has a cool blur effect
• Spawn new terminal in same working directory as current one with ctrl+shift+enter
• Mouse scrollback
• Fallback fonts (set to Joypixels and Nerd Fonts)
• Ligatures -- I don't personally use ligatured fonts but I guess its nice to have the feature?
• Text reflow
• Actual bold fonts instead of just using bright colors

Dependencies

• libxft-bgra to render color emojis without letting st crash
• harfbuzz library for rendering ligatures

Optional Dependencies

• dmenu to copy and follow URLs and to copy command output
• JoyPixels and Nerd Fonts packages to render color emojis and powerline fonts
• A compositor for transparency and blur effects