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suckless — tools and usage

st : suckless simple terminal - usage and patches.
tabbed : suckless tabbed interface - usage and patches.
surf : suckless web browser.

Clone the repository and [make|make install|make clean install] as needed. Generally, any personal modifications can be done on config.def.h

Patches can be found in the <repository>/patches

  1. Clone git repository
  3. Get patch
    wget <patch_url>
  4. Apply patch
    patch -p1 < <patch_file>

Patches are generally created from the original source code. There may have conflicts with other patches if they apply to the same section. The changes that could not be applied will be saved to <filename>.rej. The pending changes can be applied manually.

To make a personal modification combining all applied patches:

  1. Clone git repository
  2. Copy git repository to an alternate location for modifications.
    cp -r repo repo_mod
  3. Apply patches on the alternate directory 
    cd repo_mod
wget patch1
wget patch2
patch -p1 < patch1
patch -p1 < patch2
  4. Modify config.def.h as needed.
  5. Remove the patches and .orig files
  6. Create a diff from the modified directory:
    diff -up repo repo_mod > mod.diff
  7. mod.diff can now be applied as needed.

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- Translate to Spanish.

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VoidLinux manpages: st(1), tabbed(1), surf(1)
links
- Suckless.org
- st - suckless simple terminal
- tabbed - suckless tabbed interface
- surf - suckless surf browser
- suckless - hacking guidelines
- Suckless - Stuff that rocks
- Sucksless - Stuff that sucks

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2026-07-06 : Created.

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This document applies to: Linux OpenBSD | 2026-07-11