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Questions about the simple terminal (st) from suckless

These questions are about the simple terminal from suckless, named st.

For general suckless questions not specific to simple terminal, see .

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Solarized colors in st (simple terminal)

I want to use st with solarized colors like I can with urxvt (of course this is done via .Xresources, in st the colors are defined in a header file). I've tried to put the colors in st's config file (config.h), but the colors are "used for the wrong…
user24483
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zsh comments nearly invisible on command-line

When typing comments into the command-line in zsh, the commented text appears nearly invisible. I use the st terminal (Luke Smith's fork), which pulls on my .Xresources for setting colors and it seems that comments get set to color0. This is an…
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st: Redraw content on geometry change

I'm using st as my terminal and it's great. Just the right balance of minimalism and features. However, one thing that annoys me is the fact that whenever I change the geometry of my terminal window (by resizing or changing the font size) the…
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st terminal not respecting my shortcut setting

I have the clipboard patch installed, and the following lines in my config.h #define MODKEY Mod1Mask #define TERMMOD (Mod1Mask|ShiftMask) and { ShiftMask, XK_Insert, clippaste, {.i = 0} }, { TERMMOD, XK_c, …
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Wait for forked process to open a window

I'm trying to make a script like the following: st -n dropdown & pid=$(xdotool search --classname dropdown) st is a terminal emulator I'm trying to run some commands on the created st using xdotool. Unfortunately the commands after st -n dropdown &…
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Suckless Terminal dead keys

I'm wondering if there is a way to make dead keys working in DWM ? I'm actually using a french AZERTY keyboard: setxkbmap fr For example, I can't get the ê character to print in the terminal. I get ^e instead. I tried with several fonts, such as…
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How to forbid an (emoji) font only for one software?

Context : I'm using Luke Smith's version of st (suckless-terminal) with Monoid font for most Unicode symbols, and I noticed it usually crash when it sees some emojis, like U1F970, st tries to load a color emoji font (currently, it's Apple Color…
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Using st's scrollback patch with dvtm or tmux

When running suckless' st terminal with the scrollback patch in conjunction with dvtm or tmux, the scrollback (patch) only shows blank lines (empty black space). This doesn't seem to be a problem when running GNU screen. Is there a way to fix…
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Suckless' DWM Swallow Patch + Tmux

Is it possible to swallow a terminal running Tmux? I can't seem to get the patch working unless Tmux is disabled. I've tried with "Screen" on st and there were no issues :/. Thanks! https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/swallow/ (Using…
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Unable to apply fonts in emonbar with fontconfig running Arch

I am running a new install of Arch linux, trying to set up lemonbar. I would like to use the JoyPixels font for emoticons, in both lemonbar and my terminal (st). I've installed fontconfig and lemonbar-xft (which is compatible with fontconfig). When…
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Clear screen (^l) to last prompt

Macosx's terminal has a behavior that it would clear screen to previous user prompt instead of clear the whole screen. I'm using st terminal and tmux, how we can achieve that behavior?
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Suckless utilities give XOpenIM failed error

whenever i try to run a suckless app like dmenu or suckless terminal it gives the following error: XOpenIM failed. Could not open input device. how can i fix this error and be able to run dmenu?
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xst terminal: normal clipboard disabled when in tmux

When use xst not in tmux, clipboard somehow share the same with the system/os/or-whatever-idk, but I can copy from firefox/chrome and paste into xst. But with tmux I can't do that, tmux only allow use its own buffer, how to make tmux use the system…
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st terminal: disable bold/italic font

I'm using st terminal and I can't get rid of bold text, my curent font support bold and apply this patch doesn't help: https://st.suckless.org/patches/xresources/ with st.bold_font: 0 in .Xresources Howto disable completely bold font with st?
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st-terminal / vim - Ultisnips: How to enable Ctrl+Enter as Enter in insert mode of vim?

I get a strange behavior of vim but it can be related to st-terminal that I cannot do an Enter or Ctrl+Enter to break the current line into new line in insert mode, as in the example below: I have a line in vim that opens inside st-terminal: This is…
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