St: Simple terminal implementation for X

<i>fonts (you can use xfontsel(1) to generate a valid XLFD)</i><p>No no no no no. Stop using core X fonts. Just... stop. If this is supposed to be a "modern" replacement, it should be using fontconfig and client-side fonts with an appropriate renderer.

That's definitly the right direction. Our software stack is getting too complicated, and is carrying so much stuff that is almost never used (e.g. obscure entries in terminfo's db). But of course, real world does not give us much time to rethink/refactor our computing structures.

I'm a big fan of Suckless software, check out Sandy too: <a href="http://tools.suckless.org/sandy" rel="nofollow">http://tools.suckless.org/sandy</a>

This is an awesome terminal, and I think I'll just switch to it from urxvt.<p>Don't be deceived by its light-weightedness. It has very sensible features, it seems. Including full xft (anti-aliased fonts) and unicode support, <i>and</i> shortcuts to: zoom in, zoom out, and paste from clipboard. Typically, only very heavy-weight terminals (like gnome-terminal) would support these things.<p>I'm charmed. Great stuff.

Just to give you an impression of how small it is,<p>xterm 64K LOC rxvt 32K LOC st 3K LOC<p>(these numbers ain't precise)

Does it support transparency/tint for background?<p>(Yes, I know, but it's not '97 and I would actually like to have the thing I'm constantly looking at a bit more visually appealing.)

If you resize the window, does outputted text scroll (like OSX's terminal) or does it stay where it was (like xterm)? This is a feature I've been after for a while on Linux but have been unable to find a terminal that supports it.

Try surf from suckless for single-page, distraction free browsing. That and practically any other of the suckless tools; the standard of both design and execution with suckless is just out of this world, and when they say in their mission statement that they intend to comply with the unix philosophy they really do hold up to it with their code.

As an ardent DWM/dmenu user, I'm ashamed I didn't know about this earlier.<p>To fellow ArchLinux users, it's worth noting the AUR package is broken. I have uploaded a working PKGBUILD here: <a href="https://gist.github.com/4417214" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/4417214</a>