Modern terminal emulators have grown bloated, packing in features you'll never use, emulating obscure terminals you'll never need, and offloads to GPUs you'll never afford.

Simple Terminal+ is a beautiful, SIXEL-capable, lightweight terminal (~100KB) with just-enough essential features for rock-solid stability in daily usage. It is best used with tmux combined with a nerd-fonts of your choice.

This is a fork of st that bundles a curated set of patches and quality-of-life features:

• Features SIXEL support! Allows editors such as Neovim to display images via plugins.
• Automatically install a nerd-font or download a beautiful Gogh color scheme via the st-config command.
• Customizable color scheme with built-in support for over 300+ Gogh color schemes.
• Proper "Open Terminal Here" integration for Nautilus, including "Open in Remote/Local Terminal" for remote connections.
• Minimal configuration file in ~/.st.conf to store all settings.
• Auto-calculate default font size (Shift+Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn to change).
• Scrollback (Shift+Mouse Scroll or Shift+PgUp/PgDn).
• Working directory (needed for "Open Terminal Here" integration).
• Desktop entry (for menu shortcuts).
• Transparent backgrounds (alpha value).
• Blinking cursor (square box).
• One clipboard (better cut/paste).
• Fullscreen support (F11/Alt-Enter).
• Bold-is-not-bright patch (accurate bold colors)
• AppImage version will work even on 10 year old distros.
• Easy AppImage install flow via AM: am i st+

If you are a heavy tmux user and just want an AppImage of a fast, minimal, lightweight, rock-solid terminal that supports SIXEL and other essential features, then st+ is for you.

Performance benchmarking on a decent machine:

The recommended AppImage installation method is through Ivan's AM/Appman:

am -i st+

Or just download it from the release section, rename it to st+ and place it in your system $PATH.

To set color schemes or download more fonts, run the st-config tool from within the st+ terminal:

$APPDIR/st-config

This utility will allow you to change the color scheme, download/configure a nerd-font of your choice, or install the terminfo/manpage/nautilus extension if needed.

Notes on AppImage install flow:

• AM/Appman supports auto-updates with checksum integrity verification.
• AppImages will be larger in size, but there will be virtually zero difference in performance.
• To remove st+ from your system: $APPDIR/st-config uninstall

You will need the following packages (Debian example below):

sudo apt install build-essential libxft-dev libimlib2-dev pkg-config wget python3-nautilus

To avoid conflicts, the default nautilus open terminal extension should be removed if installed:

sudo apt remove nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal

To compile and install st+ (needs root):

git clone https://github.com/vishnu350/st && cd st
make patch                                       ## Apply ST+ patches first
make install CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -flto"    ## Optimize for highest performance

Other build options:

make patch SYSICON=1                             ## Desktop shortcut uses system icon
make install                                     ## Standard install (no optimizations)
make install CFLAGS="-Os -march=native -flto"    ## Optimize for size (~90KB)
make libim2 CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -flto"     ## Build imlib2 submodule

To set color schemes or download more fonts, run the st-config tool:

st-config

Only for release: To build AppImage and static binaries for distribution/release, run the following command from within an old container (st-build.dockerfile):

make patch STATIC=1
make dist STATIC=1 CFLAGS="-O3 -flto"

Notes on manual install flow:

• No auto-updates.
• Compiled binary size will be tiny (~100KB) in size.
• To remove st+ from your system: st-config uninstall or make uninstall

Configuration values such as font settings and alpha values will be stored in ~/.st.conf for persistence, change this file if needed.

If this file does not exist or was deleted, it will be regenerated with safe defaults.

Supported configuration values: font rows cols alpha colorname

For the nautilus extension to work make sure to install python3-nautilus, but remove nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal to avoid conflict.

Like this project?

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• Buy the suckless.org team a cup of coffee.

Credits to the following folk:

• Source code and patches merged from the official suckless project page: https://st.suckless.org
• The nerd-fonts team for providing the best versions of open source fonts: https://nerdfonts.com
• The Gogh-Co team for the best looking color schemes out there: https://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh
• Ivan's portable2appimage script: https://github.com/ivan-hc/portable2appimage
• Open terminal python script adapted from Tilix: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix
• Original SIXEL patch for st from Hayaki Saito, now very outdated.
• Original simple terminal source code is based on Aurélien Aptel's 'bt'.