Zellij 0.46: built-in terminal, attention inbox, session previews

azzentys

I use Zellij everyday. It's been awesome - copying text from a pane, easy scrollback, session resurrection. Yes, all of this is possible with tmux, but I had to do ZERO configuration on zellij. That being said, I worry about "terminal based desktop", that feels like a lot of stuff packed into zellij (which I personally want to use as terminal multiplexer). Will be interesting to see how it evolves. Great project so far!

jrop

Having Zellij _also_ be a first-class terminal emulator is ridiculously cool. I have so much muscle-memory in tmux+zsh/fish, but on Windows, Zellij + Nushell is such a life-saver, I'm considering putting in the effort to switch.

qbllr_

Look at the performance, it's faster than Ghosty

marshray

I have used it every day for a year or so and mostly it's been great. Call me old fashioned, but the feature creep and massive PRs with unreviewable binary blobs in the repo are concerning. It's already a terminal multiplexer, wasm extension host, and webserver. What problem is being solved by bundling in yet another vibed terminal emulator?

syntacticsalt

I really like the zellij UI, but have never been able to get past its historic lack of support for shifted modifiers (e.g., `Ctrl+Shift+,`), which makes using some TUIs difficult (like emacs, without reconfiguration). https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/3789 frames it as a protocol issue, which might be true, but it doesn't seem to be an issue for other terminal multiplexers (e.g., tmux, herdr) with other terminal applications (e.g., Terminal.app, iTerm2, ghostty, ptyxis), whether or not I disable KKP for zellij (or in the terminal app itself, or both). If that issue were fixed, I'd be more inclined to switch and support the project.