Awesome Zellij

A list of resources for Zellij workspace: plugins, tutorials and configuration settings.

All the resources listed are community-driven: we cannot offer support but suggestions and comments are very welcome.

Plugins

• ghost spawn floating command terminal pane (interactive zrf)
• gitpod.zellij Zellij plugin for Gitpod, with .gitpod.yml tasks integration
• harpoon quickly navigate panes (clone of nvim's harpoon)
• jbz (Just Bacon Zellij) display your just commands wrapped in bacon
• monocole fuzzy find of file names and contents
• multitask a mini-CI as a Zellij plugin
• room quickly search and switch tabs 🖤
• vim-zellij-navigator Seamless navigation with vim in zellij
• zbuffers a minimal and convenient way to switch between tabs, inspired by Emacs vertico-buffers and Zellij session-manager
• zellij-autolock Automatically lock Zellij depending on the command in the focused pane. Seamless navigation for Vim and more. Pairs well with zellij.vim.
• zellij-bookmarks manage command bookmarks and quickly insert them into the terminal
• zellij-cb a customizable compact bar for Zellij
• zellij-choose-tree quickly switch between sessions, inspired by tmux choose-tree
• zellij-datetime adds a date and time pane to your Zellij
• zellij-favs adds a way to save favorites sessions and flush the others
• zellij-forgot swiftly present and access your keybinds (and more)
• zellij-jump-list navigate your motions from pane-to-pane (similar to Vim, Neovim, and Emacs jump list)
• zellij-sessionizer create sessions based on folder names
• zellij-switch switching between sessions in CLI using zellij pipe
• zellij-what-time shows host system date and/or time in the status bar. Inspired by zellij-datetime
• zellij-workspace apply layouts to current session
• zj-docker display docker containers and perform basic operations
• zj-status-bar an opinionated fork of the compact-bar plugin
• zj-quit a friendly quit plugin for zellij
• zjpane Navigate between zellij panes easily
• zjstatus a configurable, themeable statusbar plugin
• zjswitcher automatically switche between normal mode and locked mode

Integrations

• yazelix zellij, yazi and nushell adding a File Tree to Helix & helix-friendly keybindigs for zellij!
• zellix A nushell wrapper over helix that leverages the power of zellij to turn it into a plugin system!

Tutorials

Basics

• Zellij basic functionality
• Using and creating Layouts

Plugins

• A comprehensive walkthrough on developing Zellij plugins
• Learnings from developing a zellij plugin an informative blog post from the creator of zjstatus
• Developing WebAssembly Rust plugins for Zellij Aram Drevekenin's talk at RustLab 2023
• How to use Zellij Switch plugin a blog post about using fzf and zoxide with zellij-switch

Documentation and support

• The zellij docs
• and of course the zellij Discord and Matrix for questions, support and discussions