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My own clone of suckless st with custom patches and settings kept in the "custom" branch.

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Eon S. Jeon 33ad83d492 Improved font caching I made a patch that improves the performance of font caching mechanism. This is based on a funny behaviour of FontConfig: it was handling FcCharSet in a somewhat unexpected way. So, we are currently adding "a character" to a new FcCharSet, and then add it to a FcPattern. However, if we toss the FcPattern to FontConfig, it loads the entire language(charset) that contains the character we gave. That is, we don't always have to load a new font for each unknown character. Instead, we can reused cached fonts, and this significantly reduces the number of calls to extremely slow FontConfig matching functions. One more thing. I found that, in libXft, there's a function called XftCharExists. XftCharIndex internally calls this function, and does more stuffs if the character does exist. Since the returned index is never used in st, we should call XftCharExists instead of XftCharIndex. Please note that I already made this change in the patch.		11 years ago
FAQ	\033 should be used in printf in the FAQ.	12 years ago
LEGACY	LEGACY: typo.	12 years ago
LICENSE	Changing the license to MIT/X.	12 years ago
Makefile	Applying the changes to the docs; by Peter Hartman.	12 years ago
README	Applying the changes to the docs; by Peter Hartman.	12 years ago
TODO	Remove long text being cropped/wrapped to standard 80x24 on launch.	12 years ago
arg.h	Adopting arg.h with more flexible cmd handling.	12 years ago
config.def.h	fix: whitespace	12 years ago
config.mk	0.4.1 release.	12 years ago
st.1	Fix the geometry handling.	12 years ago
st.c	Improved font caching	11 years ago
st.info	Enable blinking in st.	12 years ago

README

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


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


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

    tic -s st.info

See the man page for additional details.

Credits
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Based on Aurélien APTEL <aurelien dot aptel at gmail dot com> bt source code.