• onlooker
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    3 years ago

    I would mostly agree. However, there are exceptions and customizing suckless’ simple terminal (or st) is one of them. Last time I used it - which was about 5 years ago, granted - st didn’t have a config file. If you wanted to change even the most trivial things such as fonts, colours, etc., you had to edit the code. As an example, here’s a patch if one wanted to use the solarized colour scheme in st:

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

    In these few instances, the article actually is helpful, since the user would have to compile the application from source.