I do believe the goal of this project is not writing rxvt clone, or "replacement", as you call it. Also, your description of a problem is twisted and seems to touch feh, not st. If urxvt works for you, use urxvt, it's a decent terminal emulator.
2013/2/26 Andreas Marschall <andreas.marsch...@unitybox.de> > Good evening, > > I just tested the latest git version of st with feh, which is my image > viewer of choice, and ranger, which I sometimes use as file manager. st > behaves like this; > > when I open a folder of images in a simple st session and type: feh *.JPG > to see all images in that folder it opens up the first image in tiling mode > (tested with dwm and monsterwm). When I hit "v" to go to fullscreen the > image goes fullscreen but then nothing works anymore. The arrow keys don't > work for skipping through the other images, "q" for quitting doesn't work > and I can't leave fullscreen with "v". Only MOD4 + x which is my "kill > application" shortcut works after a while. > > Besides the above behaviour, when I open ranger first in an st session, go > to the image folder and mark all the images with "v" and hit enter the > images are in tile mode. I hit "v" again the image goes fullscreen. If I > hit arrow keys in order to got to the next image, it leaves fullscreen, > goes into tiling and places a few of the images even behind the tiling > windows overlapping even my taskbar. If I leave the images in tiling mode > and skip through them with the arrow keys and hit "v", then it jumpst back > to the very first image. > > needless to say that urxvt on the other hand handles these tasks just > fine, so at this point unfortunately st is not a full replacement for > urxvt, yet. > > but I'm shure you guys keep up the good work :-) > >