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What differences between Zellij and tmux do you see as game changers?

It's like so many other projects we're talking about here: it has sane defaults. If you start Zellij for the first time, it shows you menus to do all the things you might want. A big plus is that it supports mouse scrolling by default, and the scrolling works 100% of the time as far as I can tell.

I don't know if it can do everything that tmux or screen can do. I bet it probably can't. But it does all the things I want such a thing to do, and without needing any configuration on my part.

Interesting. When I tried Zellij I found that the menus were too much in my face, compared to tmux/screen more minimal design. I see how this is a good thing when you start using it but I wonder if it gets tiring in the long run, in a clippy sort of way.

But yes it makes sense that this feature makes it superior to tmux for some users. A good case for having diversity in software.

I could see that. I use Emacs with all the toolbars etc turned off. I get it.

I’m not a hardcore tmux user. I just like having persistent sessions on remote machines and bouncing between tabs, things like that. When I want to do something beyond that, with tmux I’d have to RTFM each time. In Zellij, the menu bar lets me discover it easily.

Bottom line: you’re right. I’m glad they both exist!

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