Zellij

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What is this?

Zellij is a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. Similar programs are sometimes called "Terminal Multiplexers".

Zellij is designed around the philosophy that one must not sacrifice simplicity for power, taking pride in its great experience out of the box as well as the advanced features it places at its users' fingertips.

Zellij is geared toward beginner and power users alike - allowing deep customizability, personal automation through layouts, true multiplayer collaboration, unique UX features such as floating and stacked panes, and a plugin system allowing one to create plugins in any language that compiles to WebAssembly.

Zellij includes a built-in web-client, making a terminal optional.

You can get started by installing Zellij and checking out the Screencasts & Tutorials.

For more details about our future plans, read about upcoming features in our roadmap.

How do I install it?

The easiest way to install Zellij is through a package for your OS.

If one is not available for your OS, you could download a prebuilt binary from the latest release and place it in your $PATH. If you'd like, we could automatically choose one for you.

You can also install (compile) with cargo:

cargo install --locked zellij

Try Zellij without installing

bash/zsh:

bash