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Terminal Workspace with Batteries Included
- metadat 2y agoWhat is a reason to use this rather than Terminal.app (xterm), Konsole, KiTTY, or PuTTY?
- dingensundso 2y agoZellij is a terminal workspace or terminal multiplexer not a terminal. It should be compared against tmux, screen and similar tools.
- wkat4242 2y agoAs 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)
- iudqnolq 2y agoThat'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.
- SpaceNugget 2y agoYou are thinking of byobu. Zellij is an independent replacement for tmux.
- atlas_hugged 2y agoI use zellij in kitty. Great combo!
- iudqnolq 2y agoThe 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.
- xrisk 2y agoSeems like a tmux that’s configured out-of-the-box. Neat.
- LorenzoGood 2y agoI 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.