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I decided to head an iso, to see what it looked like. I saw some normal text, but I didn't get my shell prompt until a few seconds later. Then all the text became garbled. I can still use it, though, since I'm running htop just fine. Also, some characters are unaffected, like digits and capital letters.

This was in the st which ran at the startup of my desktop. I tried to duplicate the effect with an st from lxterminal, but it is fine. The output from lxterminal is:

$ st
erresc: unknown str ESC]7
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0xFD '.'
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0x4F '0'
esc unhandled charset: ESC ( 0
esc unhandled charset: ESC ( 0
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0x4F '0'
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0x4F '.'
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0x4F '.'
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0x4F '.'
erresc: unknown sequence ESC 0x4F '&'

In htop, the bars are normally bars: |. Now they are nequal signs: ≠. Similarly, backtick is a diamond, ~ is a dot, { is pi, } is euro, and all other symbols on my keyboard are fine.

https://st.suckless.org/patches/boxdraw/

The apps that define alternate screen mode usually have their own handling of C&P (e.g. tmux, emacs, vim) so they should handle this.

Fix the width of characters - for example this  does not work well.

https://st.suckless.org/patches/themed_cursor/

When I launch st from an i3 binding, it doesn't use the proper font. When I run an identical command (st -f "Liberation Mono") from zsh, the font is properly selected.

Other arguments that I pass to the -f flag in i3 work as expected. For instance, I am able to change the font launching from the i3 binding. So far the only thing that I noticed not to work is the font selection itself.

Here is the pertinent line in my i3 config file ~/.config/i3/config:
bindsym $mod+Return exec --no-startup-id st -f "Liberation Mono"

Add -d flag which will look for an existing instance given the window name and class. If found and not active it will make it active, if already active, it will hide it. The idea is to bind it to some window manager key shortcut.

Fix terminal keys binding based on http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms/

Using the ESC 12 allow to set hex color