On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 13:55:12 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019, Tom wrote: > > > However, if urxvt fits your needs I'd highly suggest taking a look > > at st. It looks pretty much the same except with a puny codebase > > and rocksolid code quality. Along with many community patches for > > additional functionality. https://st.suckless.org/ > > SBo has the source and a build script. Built and installed it. The > configuration options apparently are only in the source tree's > config.h The man page shows very few options (e.g., no scroll bar or > choice of colors or fonts) and no indication of how to add such items > to config.h before recompiling. > > Thanks for the suggestion, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Your not supposed to use a packaged version of ST unless your the one who created the package. ST is designed to be compiled by the end user. Read the main web page, you'll notice there's a section on 'patches' which has implementations of some of the features your talking about (including a scrollback). This is partly because of a strict LOC restriction for something supposed to only do something as simple as be a terminal. Don't automatically assume this to be a difficult task though, as if you've ever compiled the Quark web server you'll also see it's of a similar build system. The codebase is so tiny you can audit the whole thing in a matter of minutes and compilation is as simple as customizing config.h and running 'make'. But yeah, most of Suckless's tools are best compiled without a package manager unless your distributing a common setup to hundreds of machines like if you were setting up a corporate office. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
