How to go totally fullscreen in a st terminal on a PocketC.H.I.P.?

Question

I use the st terminal emulator on a PocketCHIP. Unfortunately, I have grey borders on the right and the bottom of the screen. It looks like the terminal is not full screen.

How can I maximize the st window on PocketCHIP?

Answer 1

The only solution I was able to come up with is to modify the configuration header of st and change static int borderpx from default 2 to 0.

It gets rid of the border on the right. It doesn't hide the border on the bottom however.

In fact, it might not be possible in the vanilla version of st because its maximal window width and height is determined by the number of row and columns of characters it is physically possible to fit on the screen.

Answer 2

You need to patch st

Download diff patch file here: https://st.suckless.org/patches/anysize/

Apply it with the following:

# cd program-directory
# git apply path/to/patch.diff