powerlevel9k VS st

Compare powerlevel9k vs st and see what are their differences.

powerlevel9k

Powerlevel9k was a tool for building a beautiful and highly functional CLI, customized for you. P9k had a substantial impact on CLI UX, and its legacy is now continued by P10k. [Moved to: https://github.com/Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k] (by bhilburn)

st

build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw (by mrdotx)
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powerlevel9k st
2 45
13,246 8
- -
10.0 5.7
almost 4 years ago 9 days ago
Shell C
MIT License MIT License
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powerlevel9k

Posts with mentions or reviews of powerlevel9k. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-21.

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 2023-07-05.
  • Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
    I am fundamentally and ideologically opposed to using a terminal emulator implemented in electron.

    If you feel similarly, then you might enjoy https://st.suckless.org/

  • [sowm] My first time using linux!
    5 projects | /r/unixart | 19 Jun 2023
    kiss with kiss-xorg, nsxiv, st, dmenu with script, tewi, fet.sh
  • Warp? A terminal behind login popup
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Jun 2023
    My journey of using terminal emulators began together with my introduction to Linux about 7 years ago. GNOME terminal was my first as it came pre-installed on Ubuntu, my first Linux distribution. Since then, I've had the opportunity to explore and utilize a range of terminal emulators, including Alacritty, Kitty, st, Konsole, xterm, and most recently iTerm2. It's been interesting to experiment with these different emulators, each offering its unique features (or similar however with each with personal touch), user interfaces, and performance benchmarks. Just the other day, a new terminal emulator caught my attention: Warp Terminal. My curiosity won, and Warp was downloaded, this short blog are my thoughts about Warp terminal. At the moment there is only support for macOS, however linux and windows builds are on the way.
  • [dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
    12 projects | /r/suckless | 7 May 2023
    Terminal : st
  • XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought (2021)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2023
    For those looking for a minimal VT100 terminal emulator without the legacy baggage of Xterm, I highly recommend checking out Suckless Software’s st: https://st.suckless.org/
  • circles.nvim - v2.0.1
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 21 Mar 2023
    That last reference builds off of the work of the other two. It also breaks down how NOT modern Xterm is, but, if I've read it correctly, it confirms that its input latency is low compared to all other tested terminal emulators, including Alacritty and ST, which humorously and justifiably thrashes Xterm on its homepage for being a bloated program. Its not a good choice for everyone: it has poor right-to-left text and Unicode support, making working with Chinese, Arabic, and other alphabets not great, I've read.
  • Which terminal do you usually use?
    8 projects | /r/archlinux | 1 Mar 2023
    ST is a favorite of some fervent minimalists. I do not think you would like it.
  • A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal
    25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2023
    https://st.suckless.org/ used to have a circa st-0.8 fork that supported full color sixel graphics, but it seems that specific patch is not in the official list anymore. [1] You can even compose that with the scrollback patch to scroll back in your gnuplots. I use this all the time. In fact, I just have GNUTERM="sixelgd enhanced linewidth 3 fontscale 2 size 1600,900 truecolor" in my environment variables.

    [1] https://st.suckless.org/patches/

  • What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2022
  • Turning Linux Into a Usable Lispy Machine?
    9 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 25 Oct 2022
    I was curious if anyone here had some software they could recommend? I am having a hard time finding an alternative for tmux, slock, dmenu, and st though I am researching. I am also researching archiving and compression libraries in 100% Common Lisp to replace tar and such. I am also reading over the source code for cl-git as I know I will not find a Lisp implementation that does not rely on C for git protocol :(

What are some alternatives?

When comparing powerlevel9k and st you can also consider the following projects:

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

termite - Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

tmux-powerline - ⚡️ A tmux plugin giving you a hackable status bar consisting of dynamic & beautiful looking powerline segments, written purely in bash.

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

hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies

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

GPaste - Clipboard management system

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

tabby-clippy - An example plugin for Tabby

gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim