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# Luke's build of st - the simple (suckless) terminal
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The [suckless terminal (st)](https://st.suckless.org/) with some additional
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features that make it literally the best terminal emulator ever:
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## Unique features (using dmenu)
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+ **follow urls** by pressing `alt-l`
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+ **copy urls** in the same way with `alt-y`
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+ **copy the output of commands** with `alt-o`
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## Bindings for
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+ **scrollback** with `alt-↑/↓` or `alt-pageup/down` or `shift` while scrolling the
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mouse.
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+ OR **vim-bindings**: scroll up/down in history with `alt-k` and `alt-j`.
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Faster with `alt-u`/`alt-d`.
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+ **zoom/change font size**: same bindings as above, but holding down shift as
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well. `alt-home` returns to default
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+ **copy text** with `alt-c`, **paste** is `alt-v` or `shift-insert`
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## Pretty stuff
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+ Compatibility with `Xresources` and `pywal` for dynamic colors.
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+ Default [gruvbox](https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox) colors otherwise.
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+ Transparency/alpha, which is also adjustable from your `Xresources`.
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+ Default font is system "mono" at 14pt, meaning the font will match your
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system font.
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## Other st patches
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+ Boxdraw
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+ Ligatures
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+ font2
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+ updated to latest version 0.8.5
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## Installation for newbs
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You should have xlib header files and libharfbuzz build files installed.
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```
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git clone https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st
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cd st
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sudo make install
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```
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Obviously, `make` is required to build. `fontconfig` is required for the
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default build, since it asks `fontconfig` for your system monospace font. It
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might be obvious, but `libX11` and `libXft` are required as well. Chances are,
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you have all of this installed already.
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On OpenBSD, be sure to edit `config.mk` first and remove `-lrt` from the
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`$LIBS` before compiling.
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Be sure to have a composite manager (`xcompmgr`, `picom`, etc.) running if you
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want transparency.
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## How to configure dynamically with Xresources
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For many key variables, this build of `st` will look for X settings set in
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either `~/.Xdefaults` or `~/.Xresources`. You must run `xrdb` on one of these
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files to load the settings.
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For example, you can define your desired fonts, transparency or colors:
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```
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*.font: Liberation Mono:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:autohint=true;
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*.alpha: 0.9
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*.color0: #111
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...
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```
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The `alpha` value (for transparency) goes from `0` (transparent) to `1`
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(opaque). There is an example `Xdefaults` file in this respository.
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### Colors
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To be clear about the color settings:
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- This build will use gruvbox colors by default and as a fallback.
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- If there are Xresources colors defined, those will take priority.
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- But if `wal` has run in your session, its colors will take priority.
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Note that when you run `wal`, it will negate the transparency of existing windows, but new windows will continue with the previously defined transparency.
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## Notes on Emojis and Special Characters
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If st crashes when viewing emojis, install
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[libxft-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libxft-git/) from the AUR.
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Note that some special characters may appear truncated if too wide. You might
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want to manually set your prefered emoji/special character font to a lower size
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in the `config.h` file to avoid this. By default, JoyPixels is used at a
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smaller size than the usual text.
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## Contact
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- Luke Smith <luke@lukesmith.xyz>
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- [https://lukesmith.xyz](https://lukesmith.xyz)
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