Switched to st terminal emulator
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Last edited: $Date: 2018/06/17 19:46:19 $
## st, a lightweight terminal emulator
Recently I switched to the st terminal emulator.
st is an alternative for terminal emulators like xterm and rxvt.
st is very lightweight, the size of the binary in my OpenBSD laptop
is only 90k.
The great people behind the suckless.org project have created st.
You know, the same team that created, among others, the dwm window
manager.
## st, the terminus font and ratpoison
I have been using the ratpoison window manager since 2008. It fits
very well with my type of usage.
As an example, here follows two lines from my .ratpoisonrc:
exec st -f "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-c-80-*-*"
bind c exec st -f "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-100-*-*-c-80-*-*"
This results in a good readable display, the fixed font is great
for writing in vi and vim and wonderful for coding.
## Less bloat and just works [tm]
Although st is much lighter, compared to xterm and to rxvt, it
functions very well. So, now using st for me has left the "testing"
phase and has become my standard terminal emulator.
