st - simple terminal

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.

Requirements

In order to build st you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

Please first make sure that libxft-bgra is installed: it contains a patch necessary for emojis to render or else, st will crash when trying to render one.

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (st is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install st (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running st

If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -sx st.info

See the man page for additional details.

Credits

Based on Aurélien APTEL {aurelien dot aptel at gmail dot com} bt source code.