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Hence, a higher number means a better zellij alternative or higher similarity.
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- Zellij: Support the Kitty Image Protocol
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It's time to talk about my writerdeck
https://zellij.dev/tutorials/basic-functionality/
If you're already a tmux expert then zellij is probably no big deal, and the "written in rust" part is more of a red-herring than the headline.
Firstly, it doesn't conflict with Ctrl-A by default (but I think that's actually `screen`), second it has mouse support, floating window, saved layouts, stacked tabs, session picker/manager, and take a look at the configuration mechanism: https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/blob/main/zellij-utils/...
...for some reason it's just feels "super-sensible", comfortable, and allows a lot of flexibility.
The concept of "booting layouts" (a very poor-man's `docker compose` ;-) is really interesting and powerful:
https://zellij.dev/documentation/layouts.html
https://zellij.dev/documentation/creating-a-layout.html
...and I've got like a total of like 1.5hrs of zellij usage under my belt.
I've never been one to be super attached to screen/tmux, tried out byobu... none of them clicked in the same way with power, ease, and flexibility that zellij felt like it provided right away.
Again: this may be telling a vim user about the power of emacs, in which case just nod and smile and go about your day, but since these terminal multiplexers are effectively "just UX", then a "slightly different UX" may end up being in actuality the whole compelling product!
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How to setup Terminal tools for Mac
zellij-org/zellij
- Zellij is now supported on Windows
- Zellij 0.44.0 with native Windows support
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Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
I like Zellij, but one point of friction I ran into was it not loading profile configurations like .zprofile. https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/1434
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Ghostty + Zellij 👻 setup on Mac
Reordering tabs with Alt+i and Alt+o did not work as expected
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Zellij 0.43 brings the terminal to your browser
Zellij 0.43.0 has just been released! Check it out!
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You might not need tmux
https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues?page=1
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Tmux-Rs
Nice, hope it will become cleaner code in time. I tried zellij multiple times but despite years of development it still misses many things tmux provides. Inability to show/hide status bar[1] is the most annoying.
[1] https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/694
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The primary programming language of zellij is Rust.
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