The Simple Terminal: st from Suckless, and how I extend it

[UnderArea]

I've stubbed upon your channel! Awesome! As a new learner of programming, I've really enjoyed booting straight into a terminal, installing programs, and learning Python in Vim editor. I started out with Vim. The terminal feels like driving a car with stick shift. I feel connect - feel closer to the computer, removing all the visual distracting of the goo GUI. LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!

[ThaRSGeek]

looks coomplicated why not use windows instead

[kickbuttowski]

Been using your st build for four months, works flawlessly thank you luke

[grenin]

I've been using your st build for close to a year, after switching away from urxvt for truecolor support. But today I decided to build it myself. So glad I did, now I can use alt+j/k/l to leave modes and move in vim in one keyboard press again!

[vicmac]

@8:14 what kind of David Copperfield trick you committed to uncomment those lines in current paragraph?

[fanone]

How to comment / uncomment entire section in VIM without visually selecting it, while in the middle of the section, like at 8:14?

[KupriyanovKirill]

Luke: I want my /comfy/ vim bindings everywhere

Luke a few moments later: You can't use Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V in terminal, so I use Alt+C and Alt+V

Me:

[fuseteam]

"no terminal will have ... ctrl v for pasting"
elementaryos: hold my tux

[mpkoks]

Nice video. Would like to add that "Shift + Insert" actually mostly works for primary clipboard (which is usually what you have highlighted with the mouse) not the secondary (what normal people consider clipboard).

[eegoal]

11:54 I installed that font and set the configuration in dwm but I still can't put emojis in the statusbar.

[colinmsmall]

My only issue with st is performance. When I use something like cava for example, it seems to struggle with it or I'll get strange behavior. But other terminals like xterm, kitty, etc. seem fine.

I tried adjusting settings for performance but it never really worked well. After using kitty and alacritty for a while I strangely enough found myself going to xterm. I never even considered xterm prior.. it was always st, kitty, alacritty, termite urxvt... then I was like.. what about xterm? I gave it a shot and I've been using it for months now with no issues.

[CocolinoFan]

I've created the Xresorces text file inside .config and set the transparency there, plus I've changed the transparency in st/config.h but it does not work, my terminal is fully opaque. Any ideas anyone?

[oldthocker]

I aspire to be these level of nerdy effective.

[JDStone]

Along with st, I also use guake. I did a time tree command to test the speed, and both came out the same speed, faster that the i3 terminal and xterm

[LucyPero]

It works great but the display bugs out when you scroll back down and you reach the end.. Like it removes the newlines before your prompt

[MahbubAlam]

How do I make st my default terminal in Linuxmint. After installation it's not available in the list of prefered applications in linux mint. I tried running `sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator`, st isn't available there as well. This could be a dumb question.

[JDStone]

I really like this new video series! Awesome!

[Prayagmatic]

You said in you channel reboot video that your system is pretty stable now. So can you please do a video on backing up your Arch system and basically how to safeguard yourself from your system breaking due to updates and stuff?

[boy_with_thorn]

Its not clear to me where and how to change the font. Ligatures are important to me.

[loverboykimi]

Is there a way to set scroll back cache to unlimited ?