ST - Simple Terminal

Name: ST - Simple Terminal
Rating: 3.7 (3 reviews)

21 likes

st is a simple terminal implementation for X.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source

Application type

Terminal Emulator

Origin

Germany
EU

Platforms

Linux
BSD

Alternatives

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Properties

Lightweight
Minimalistic
Customizable

Features

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Portable
Command line interface
GPU Acceleration

Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

desgua

★★★★★

Nov 8, 2020

It is fast and lightweight and compiled with the features you want.

Top Negative Comment

Vitaly Zdanevich

★★★★★

Dec 26, 2019

Simple, but cannot scroll! See, you can install patch for scrolling https://st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback/, this is crazy.

Jozef Cifre

★★★★★

Sep 16, 2023

ST is super minimalist out-of-the-box, and highly configurable.

You can do everything in ST, you just have to install patches to add the features you need or configure/code them yourself to create new feature patches.

lunolas

CommentJul 17, 2017

Excellent, small and simple project (code, interface)

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What is ST - Simple Terminal?

st is a simple terminal implementation for X.

What is wrong with xterm ? xterm is bloated and unmaintainable. Here’s an excerpt from the README:

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.

Needless to say things have not changed, it’s still ugly. It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will never need. The popular alternative, RXVT has only 32K lines of code. This is just too much for something as simple as a terminal emulator; it’s yet another example of code complexity.

Terminal emulation doesn't need to be so complex.