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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 features:
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+ Compatibility with `Xresources` and `pywal` for dynamic colors. The `Xdefaults` file shows a usage example.
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+ Default [gruvbox](https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox) colors otherwise.
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+ Transparency/alpha, which is also adjustable from `~/.Xresources`.
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+ Default font is system "mono" at 16pt, meaning the font will match your system font.
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+ Very useful keybinds including:
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+ Copy is alt-c, paste is alt-v or alt-p pastes from primary selection
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+ Alt-l feeds all urls on screen to dmenu, so they user can choose and
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follow one (requires xurls and dmenu installed).
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+ Zoom in/out or increase font size with Alt+Shift+k/j or u/d for larger intervals.
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+ Hold alt and press either ↑/↓ or the vim keys k/j to move up/down in the terminal.
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+ Shift+Mouse wheel do the same.
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+ Alt-u and Alt-d scroll back/forward in history a page at a time.
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+ Alt-PageUp and Alt-PageDown will do the same.
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+ Vertcenter
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+ Scrollback
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+ updated to latest version 0.8.1
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The following additional bindings were added before I forked this:
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+ Scroll through history -- Shift+PageUp/PageDown or Shift+Mouse wheel
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+ Increase/decrease font size -- Shift+Alt+PageUp/PageDown
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+ Return to default font size -- Alt+Home
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+ Paste -- Shift+Insert
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## Installation for newbs
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```
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make
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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 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.
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On OpenBSD, be sure to edit `config.mk` first and remove `-lrt` from the `$LIBS` before compiling.
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Be sure to have a composite manager (`xcompmgr`, `compton`, etc.) running if you 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 either `~/.Xdefaults` or `~/.Xresources`. You must run `xrdb` on one of these 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: 150
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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 `255`
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(opaque).
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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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## Contact
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- Luke Smith <luke@lukesmith.xyz>
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- [https://lukesmith.xyz](https://lukesmith.xyz)
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