Simple Terminal (st) is a minimal and performant terminal emulator written by the Suckless team.
I’m going to show you how you can have your own customized build of st.
Overlay
(self: super: {
st = super.st.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
pname = "st-kl";
version = "1.0.0";
src = fetchTarball {
url = "https://github.com/klorophatu/st/archive/master.tar.gz";
};
buildInputs = oldAttrs.buildInputs ++ (with super; [ harfbuzz ]);
});
})
Put this into /etc/nixos/st-overlay.nix
and edit it to your own needs.
Adding the Overlay
nixpkgs.overlays = [
(import ./st-overlay.nix)
];
Add this somewhere at the top of your configuration.nix
.
Installation
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
... st
];
Add st
to your systemPackages
to be installed.
Conclusion
I haven’t seen many guides on setting up st so I decided to create my own. A lot of help was given by “Hm7”, his Discord tag is Hm7#0400
.