[we]st - Wesley's simple terminal

My build of the simple terminal (the best terminal emulator).

This is a very complete build of the simple terminal, with a lot of useful patches.

Dependencies

• harfbuzz (font ligatures)

Fonts

• JetBrains Mono Nerd Font
• NotoColorEmoji

Try it out with Nix Flakes

$ nix run github:wesleyjrz/west

Or build the package with nix-build

$ nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> { }; callPackage ./default.nix { }'

NOTE: You may use the nix-build script as well.

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/wesleyjrz/west.git
$ cd west
$ sudo make install

NOTE: Don't forget to merge your Xresources.

Using Nix Flakes

Add st.url = "github:wesleyjrz/west"; to your inputs and install inputs.st.packages."${system}".west

Keybindings

• scrollback with alt-↑/↓, alt-pageup/down or with the mouse scroll.
  • Or use Vim keys like a Giga Chad: alt-k/j to scroll up/down and alt-u/d to scroll faster.
• zoom holding shift and using alt-k to zoom in and alt-j to zoom out. Reset zoom with alt-shift-g.
• copy text with alt-c and paste with alt-v or shift-insert. Default ctrl-shift-c/v keys are also supported.
• open another terminal with alt-shift-return.

You can see all the available shortcuts with man st.

lukesmithxyz unique features (using dmenu)

• follow urls by pressing alt-l
• copy urls in the same way with alt-y
• copy the output of commands with alt-o

Patches

• alpha
• anygeometry
• boxdraw
• clipboard
• font2
• ligatures
• live reload
• newterm
• patch_column (doesn't cut text while resizing)
• right click paste
• scrollback
• selectioncolors
• st desktop entry
• sync patch
• xresources

Xresources

You may configure you terminal with custom theme, fonts, selection colours or any other available options by editing your Xresources file. More information about Xresources here.

There's an example Xresources file available.

live-reload

To merge your Xresources and reload st to see your changes on-the-fly, alias this command on your shell:

xrdb merge <xresources> && kill -USR1 $(pidof st)

NOTES

• boxdraw_braille is disabled by default, you may want to change it in config.def.h

TODO

• Add support for --title= and --class= arguments (because I like to test various terminal emulator and the majority of them uses these options to set title and class)

Credits

• lukesmithxyz -- for convincing me to use st and for the cool features with dmenu
• siduck -- for the awesome build I've used as a base
• nimaipatel -- for the patch_column patch

License

MIT