Zellij for Tmuxers

While Zellij IS INCREDIBLE. It comes very "raw" out of the box. Weird conflicts with Vim forces using lock mode, behaviours which made Tmux great are sometimes ignored (ahm ahm locked modes). In this video I'm going through how I made changes, why, to a point where Zellij actually feels superior now.

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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Panes & Tabs
02:30 - Locked & Session Modes
03:02 - Pane Mode
03:24 - Tmux Mode
03:40 - Fixing my mapping to the "old ways"
04:52 - Tabs Mode
05:22 - My Config
06:25 - Zoom & Frames
07:35 - Simplified UI
07:48 - Final Thoughts

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[murtadha]

I was JUST watching a Zellij video this morning!
I plan to setup Zellij to replace my tmux setup

[AramDrevekenin]

Hey there! While I don't run the Zellij social accounts, I also really like your videos and am very happy you like Zellij. It's always great to hear feedback on usability - *especially* from advanced users. I plan on doing another iteration on the UI/UX over the summer and this was very useful to hear.

While I don't personally like comparing to tmux and don't feel Zellij is competing with it, about floating panes: last time I tried them in tmux they froze the entire display behind them when visible (so that you can't for example live tail a log behind the pane), and generally seemed more like "popups" - there to briefly display information (eg. a menu or a command output) rather than be a first class citizen. But maybe things changed since then.

Also, a personal request: I see in your videos that the frame color of panes is sometimes partial (eg. only appears on their side). I think this is a bug and I have not encountered it before - if you'd be willing to open an issue in the repository and telling us a bit more about your environment (eg. which terminal emulator you're using) that would be great - thanks!


Once again - cool videos!

[WaldirBorbaJunior]

I'm glad to see that you like Zellij

[Muaahaa]

I'm pretty much always using zellij while working in a terminal. While there are plenty of default configurations that clash with other tools or maybe just don't quite feel right I don't think this is a problem because they are customizable. Something I do sometimes encounter, though, that can be an issue is degraded performance when trying to scrollback or search through large amounts of text in stdout. Generally happens with large logs from complex builds or installs. Or potentially reading the logs from a long running process/service. When I hit this I tend to need to open a terminal outside zellij to perform that task.

[TheSast]

One feature I really like about Zellij is lock mode, but I do already have some ideas to bring it to Tmux too as a plugin!

[dlirious]

This is an impressively well made video. A pleasure to watch. Thank you.
I'm strugglin with something much simpler: setting up my terminal in MacOSX so that (a) it looks nice (b) I can always hotkey into it.
Can you say a word about that? Yours looks great. I presume it's iTerm.

[SlateIvanovo]

What's your fix for the lack of resurrect functionality in Zellij? I know you can specify layout file on startup, but kinda don't want to keep it up to date.

As I saw on github, the work on saving session is progressing, but still some time away

Disregard that! It appears that support has landed 4 days ago. Woooo!

[peterklemenc]

Is there a way to toggle-off the "help" bar on the bottom? Feels very clunky.

[ioannisgkikas]

Hey! Cool stuff. Im considering the jump into zellij but not really sure yet since I have a lot of plugin dependence.

Btw, what are you using for those floating notifications that popped up now and then throughout the vid?

[berkeleytrue]

Anyone know the name of the tmux plugin that dumps history into a vim session? I can't seem to find it.

[godefroidchapelle]

You tell here that you switched to zellij from tmux. In your previous video, you mentioned how you missed the tmux-resurrect plugin. Did you find a solution to replace it ?

[luccahuguet]

Man, you can just hit "ctrl hjkl" to move around without having to enter any mode

So you didn't have to do these rebindings

[EduardoRodriguezRocks]

makign this behave like tmux ? hehehe wtf