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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Is it possible to make st more responsive?

I like st - it's lean and mean and slow as hell e.g. when I use the cursor keys.
OK, so the last one is hardly a virtue, but maybe we can teach st to behave more like urxvt, which is a faster, but more complex piece of software and uses more memory.
I'm using st with tmux, because st doesn't have a built-in scrollback buffer. st is pretty slow when moving around with cursor (or hjkl) keys, deleting with backspace or even selecting some text with my mouse, but it may be because of my old hardware, font settings or something else. If you want some info, tell me what exactly should I post.

st alone (w/o tmux) is just as slow. Yes, I know about the nice ways you can copy with tmux, move around with vim and bash+readline, but st still feels sluggish.
I'm happy with dwm+urxvtd, but I wanted to try something different and tmux is so sweet. st has no built-in tabs support and I yes, I know about 'tabbed', but I want to be tabs-less for a while.

Any st users out there?
I'm too afraid to post on the suckless ML ;P

jakobcreutzfeldt

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Registered: 2011-05-12

Posts: 1,042

Re: Is it possible to make st more responsive?

Yes, it's generally a bit sluggish, I've found. Have you tried playing with the xfps and actionfps options in config.h?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Is it possible to make st more responsive?

I can't say that changing these settings made any difference.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Is it possible to make st more responsive?

I've changed acceleration method to the semi-legacy uxa and my st experience has magically improved.
Setting 'xset r' to something more aggressive, like 'xset r rate 200 30' doesn't hurt either.