💊 xst 💊

xst is a st fork with some patches applied and other goodies.

Breaking changes with 0.8.4

• st.bold_font option is now inverted; set st.disablebold to 1 to remove bold (additionally there is now disable{italic,roman})
• st.reverse-cursor renamed to st.cursorbg
• st.mouseScrollLines renamed to st.scrollrate

xst-specific stuff

• Loads settings from Xresources. See the reference file.
• Live-reloads settings from xrdb on USR1 signal (like termite)
• Has cursor blinking options (and can persistently blink while typing)
• A keybind alt+u for launching urls with dmenu + xurls

Suckless patches

• alpha
• boxdraw
• clipboard
• disable bold/italic fonts
• externalpipe
• scrollback
• spoiler
• vertcenter
• undercurl
• netwmicon

Not supported patches

• hidecursor: use unclutter or an external program to hide your cursor
• keyboard_select: use tmux

Packages

distro	name/details
ALT Linux (Sisyphus)	xst
Arch Linux (AUR)	xst-git
Fedora (COPR)	keefle/xst
Gentoo (personal overlay)	https://framagit.org/3/ebuilds
Guix	https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/xst/
NetBSD	xst
Void Linux	xst

Thanks

• suckless project
• actionless
• dcat
• Forkk
• niebieskitrociny