st VS xst

Compare st vs xst and see what are their differences.

st

LEV Linux's terminal (a fork of st) (by lev-linux)

xst

st fork that uses Xresources and some pretty good patches (by gnotclub)
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st xst
1 5
0 531
- -0.2%
4.2 4.6
12 months ago 5 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 2022-05-18.
  • Cannot use Ctrl+Shift+Tab
    2 projects | /r/suckless | 18 May 2022
    I have applied the fix keyboard patch. However, the only key I have noticed to not function properly is . I am basically trying to bind this key to gT in nvim. I cannot even think of a reason as to why this only key will not work, I was able to bind , , and a bunch of other keys that are usually unavailable in terminals. I hope someone can pinpoint the issue with my system. For references, I am using Luke Smith's fork; here is mine.

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:

st - Luke's fork of the suckless simple terminal (st) with vim bindings and Xresource compatibility.

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

st - snazzy terminal (suckless + beautiful)

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

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).

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

suckless - forks of suckless programs (this used to be the dwm repo).

st - build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw

st - My build of st (simple terminal from suckless)