st VS xst

Compare st vs xst and see what are their differences.

st

My build of st (simple terminal from suckless) (by ankitjosh78)

xst

st fork that uses Xresources and some pretty good patches (by gnotclub)
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st xst
1 5
3 531
- -0.2%
0.0 4.6
over 2 years ago 4 months ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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st

Posts with mentions or reviews of st. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-07.

xst

Posts with mentions or reviews of xst. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing st and xst you can also consider the following projects:

dwm - My build of dwm (dynamic window manager from suckless)

st-flexipatch - An st build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

sfm - simple file manager

st - snazzy terminal (suckless + beautiful)

modwm - MODWM - Modular Dynamic Window Manager

tilda - A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix

dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

linux-dotfiles - My custom GNU/Linux dotfiles, suckless builds, scripts, etc.

tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

shotkey - A simple and lightweight hotkey daemon for X with configurable custom modes and key chords (in ~200 LOC)

libxft-bgra - A patched version of libxft that allows for colored emojis to be rendered in Suckless software (dmenu/st/whatever).