Terminal Workspace with Batteries Included

github.com

32 points·saikatsg··9 comments

I tried this out for my first multiplexer, but I prefer tmux. Zellij is oddly modal, which makes doing things take far more keypresses than they should require.

What is a reason to use this rather than Terminal.app (xterm), Konsole, KiTTY, or PuTTY?

Zellij is a terminal workspace or terminal multiplexer not a terminal. It should be compared against tmux, screen and similar tools.

As far as i remember reading before it is even a layer on top of screen or tmux and you could even choose which.

Never tried it though. Tmux does me fine (I used screen for decades but these days it shows its age)

That's something else. Zellij is a reimplementation in Rust. Tmux is perfectly fine as well but for me personally Zellij is more approachable if I want fix a bug or add a feature.

You are thinking of byobu. Zellij is an independent replacement for tmux.

I use zellij in kitty. Great combo!

The other week I wanted to process a few hundred gigabytes of elevation data. My home internet is poor, so I rented a cheap cloud server and installed zellij on it. Zellij let me have two panes so I could monitor wget requests and also watch the overall progress. Zellij also kept the commands running even if I closed my laptop screen and my ssh connection dropped.

I also use zellij locally so I don't have to learn more than one set of keyboard shortcuts and so on. There are plently of alternatives but zellij is just convenient.

Seems like a tmux that’s configured out-of-the-box. Neat.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com