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juliusHuelsmann / st

Repatch repository of developed 'Vim Browse' and 'Alpha Focus Highlight' patches for simple terminal (st).
https://st.suckless.org/patches/alpha_focus_highlight/
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simple-terminal suckless suckless-terminal terminal-emulator

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Note

There seems to be some evidence suggesting that some of the people responsible at suckless e.V. are sympathizing with far-right ideas and Neo-nazi symbols [1, 2]. If you like this patch, please consider donating to an organization that fights xenophobia and antisemitism (e.g. schwarz-rot-bunt (German) or similar organizations).

Patches

This repository contains the latest version of the alpha-focus and the vim patches for suckless simple terminal (st) merged with other useful patches in my personal st build. This repository can be cloned in order to try out one of the aforementioned patches in a functional environment. It also serves to port the patches to new versions of st and thus holds the most recent releases in the release page. Pull requests are to be issued in the development repositories for vim browse and alpha focus respectively.

Vim Browse adds history-functionality to the terminal, and allows to -- among other things -- select, yank, search it via keyboard using vim-like motions and operations. It operates on top of the st-history patch, which can be configured with a set of optional patches. The Alpha Focus Highlight patch applies transparency to the configured background, and allows to use different transparency levels and background colors for focused and unfocused windows. This patch requires a running X composite manager.

Build process

# If required: Install Build dependencies (if you're on Arch)
sudo pacman -S make git picom
# Clone
git clone https://github.com/juliusHuelsmann/st.git
cd st
# Optional: Use my xresources 
xrdb -merge .Xresources
# Build
rm config.h
make clean
make

Launch st:

After building, make sure that you launch your compositor if you want to enable transparency.

picom -b # optional, for the alpha focus patch; can be replaced by different
         # compositor
./st

install

After building, you can install this st build via

sudo make install

In case you want to install this st build and use the shipped .Xresources (color scheme and opacity), be sure to copy them into your home directory,

cp -i .Xresources $HOME/.Xresources

and to merge them after booting

xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources

You also need to make sure that your composite manager is launched on startup.

Patching and Documentation

The patches are released here. Documentation on how to use the patches can be found in the dev repositories

Patches can be applied to st's source code via

patch < [PATCH_NAME]

and then build as usual (e.g. after removing the old config.h file).