DustVoice's st (from suckless.org) fork
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I made a patch that improves the performance of font caching mechanism. This is based on a funny behaviour of FontConfig: it was handling FcCharSet in a somewhat unexpected way. So, we are currently adding "a character" to a new FcCharSet, and then add it to a FcPattern. However, if we toss the FcPattern to FontConfig, it loads the entire language(charset) that contains the character we gave. That is, we don't always have to load a new font for each unknown character. Instead, we can reused cached fonts, and this significantly reduces the number of calls to extremely slow FontConfig matching functions. One more thing. I found that, in libXft, there's a function called XftCharExists. XftCharIndex internally calls this function, and does more stuffs if the character does exist. Since the returned index is never used in st, we should call XftCharExists instead of XftCharIndex. Please note that I already made this change in the patch. |
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| config.mk | ||
| FAQ | ||
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| st.1 | ||
| st.c | ||
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st - simple terminal
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st is a simple virtual terminal emulator for X which sucks less.
Requirements
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In order to build st you need the Xlib header files.
Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (st is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install st (if
necessary as root):
make clean install
Running st
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If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile
the st terminfo entry with the following command:
tic -s st.info
See the man page for additional details.
Credits
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Based on Aurélien APTEL <aurelien dot aptel at gmail dot com> bt source code.