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mmzz

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Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

Hello!

Im new in all this of linux, im using linux mint for a while but in a superficial way. This year my goal is to understand more, so im make a virtualmachine with arch to start and when i get use to it, go to an actual install. There is a lot of info, but im so lost that its a little bit imposible, so im seeking a little bit of light. For now im running arch with dwm st and dmenu (and zsh).

Two things:

1) Using ST for the emulator with zsh shell, where its seek the info of fonts and colors for the terminal? For one side there are patchs for st, but at least to me there is no effect, so its zsh that its the one that is in charge? What is the order of file that the system looks to have this things.

2) A little bit different, again with the order of files that the system reads. When i use startx that haves exec dwm, which is the order of files that its read for the terminal, like bash_profile, bashrc (if using bash), zshrc, the st config.h, etc.

If this make no sense, tell me that i can try to be more precise.

"Thats all" (really a lots of question, going one by one...)

jasonwryan

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

Please read the wiki before posting. There is almost always documentation there, especially for basic questions:

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St#Colors
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zs … down_files

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mmzz

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

I read it, and i still confuse. In a way zsh set up wins? Because i modify ST and nothing happens.

jasonwryan

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

What does "modify ST" mean? And "nothing happens" is not an error message: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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mmzz

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

What i mean, is that i put a st theme patch, modifying de config.h of ST, but the terminal looks the same as before, so thats why i mean that zsh "wins". I will still reading, may be i start with to much.

loqs

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

What i mean, is that i put a st theme patch, modifying de config.h of ST

Where did you put the patch?  What did you do after putting the patch?

jasonwryan

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

If you recompile st, and it works without error, you should be able to see your changes.

I guess you are using OMZ...

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mmzz

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

No, im using zsh vanilla. I patch with nord theme, of the suckless patches, recompile, no errors, and nothig happens. I follow a youtube guy and he succes in this, the only difference with me is that he is using bash, thats why im asking.
However i will still reading.

Thx!

PD: sorry for my english! Not a first language.

SubS0

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

… do you update your st package after recompiling ? 

How do you install it after compilation ? 

Try to start with bash before adding a layer of config with zsh…

mmzz

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

I follow the youtube instrucctions.
1) i had install st in /usr/src/st.
2) i unistall it with make uninstall.
3) Then patch it with patch -i name.diff (that i download it in that directory)
4) Finally make clean install.
The guy of yotube open a new terminal an wala! done. Not my case. I will try with bash fisrt.

Last edited by mmzz (2020-04-07 14:16:59)

loqs

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

Could the new terminal you start be a different executable than the one you just built?  If you are not calling it with a full path have you checked `type -a st`

mmzz

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Re: Understanding fonts, theme, color and profiles (?)

The path is in /usr/local/bin/st. I think is right. I also try to remove it, and then again do a clean install with the patch, and still all the same.