st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.

Please use release branch, master branch is just a fork of suckless’st repo, other branchs are patch branches.

git checkout release

Branch Description:

• release is the one you should use, which is the result of merging dev with the patched versions.
• master branch is in sync with the originaldwm project at https://git.suckless.org/dwm .
• dev is the branch of all development work, you may track this branch to see basic customization for dwm.
• other branches are just patches.

In order to build st you need the Xlib header files.

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (st is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install st (if necessary as root):

make clean install

If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -sx st.info

See the man page for additional details.