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

Navigation

• harpoon quickly navigate panes (clone of nvim's harpoon)
• room quickly search and switch tabs 🖤
• vim-zellij-navigator Seamless navigation with vim in zellij
• zellij-jump-list navigate your motions from pane-to-pane (similar to Vim, Neovim, and Emacs jump list)
• zellij-nvim-nav-plugin Another plugin for seamless navigation with neovim/vim windows
• zellij-pane-picker quickly switch, star, and jump to panes with customizable keyboard shortcuts
• zjpane Navigate between zellij panes easily

Session Management

• zbuffers a minimal and convenient way to switch between tabs, inspired by Emacs vertico-buffers and Zellij session-manager
• zellij-attention add notification icons to tab names when panes need attention, designed for Claude Code
• 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-favs adds a way to save favorites sessions and flush the others
• zellij-sessionizer create sessions based on folder names
• zellij-switch switching between sessions in CLI using zellij pipe
• zsm A zoxide-integrated session switcher with support for default layouts

Status Bar

• zellaude a status bar plugin that shows Claude Code activity indicators on tabs
• zellij-cb a customizable compact bar for Zellij
• zellij-datetime adds a date and time pane to your Zellij
• zellij-load show system resources such as CPU, memory and GPU usage. Similar to tmux cpu-usage
• zellij-what-time shows host system date and/or time in the status bar. Inspired by zellij-datetime
• zj-status-bar an opinionated fork of the compact-bar plugin
• zjstatus a configurable, themeable statusbar plugin
• zjstatus-hints adds mode-aware key binding hints to zjstatus

UI & Modes

• zellij-autolock Automatically lock Zellij depending on the command in the focused pane, seamless navigation for Vim, pairs well with zellij.vim.
• zellij-forgot swiftly present and access your keybinds (and more)
• zellij-getmode a simple utility plugin that gets the current input mode of zellij
• zellij-layoutswitch switch between layouts and tab panes natively & efficiently without shell bloat
• zellij-newtab-plus create named tabs and navigate using zoxide in one keybind
• zellij-tab-bar-indexed a tab-bar plugin that adds numeric indices to tabs for quick navigation
• zellij-vertical-tabs a plugin that displays tabs vertically as rows
• zellij-workspace apply layouts to current session
• zjswitcher automatically switch between normal mode and locked mode

Search

• grab A fuzzy finder (files, structs, enums, functions) for Rust devs
• monocole fuzzy find of file names and contents

Utilities

• ghost spawn floating command terminal pane (interactive zrf)
• multitask a mini-CI as a Zellij plugin
• zellij-attention add notification icons to tab names when panes need attention, designed for Claude Code
• zellij-bookmarks manage command bookmarks and quickly insert them into the terminal
• zellij-notepad floating notepad pane with configurable editor, position, and timestamped notes
• zellij-playbooks browse, select, and execute commands from playbook files directly in the terminal
• zellij-qr-share show a web token as a QR code in the terminal for fast mobile authentication in the web UI.
• zellij-send-keys send text/commands to specific panes like tmux send-keys
• zj-quit a friendly quit plugin for zellij

External Tools

• gitpod.zellij Zellij plugin for Gitpod, with .gitpod.yml tasks integration
• jbz (Just Bacon Zellij) display your just commands wrapped in bacon
• zellijira Manage sessions around on Jira issues
• zj-docker display docker containers and perform basic operations
• zj-git-branch Manage git branches

Integrations

• fzf-zellij Shell script to start fzf in a Zellij floating pane.
• opencode-zellij-namer AI-powered dynamic session naming for OpenCode, automatically renames sessions based on project context
• theylix Zellij, Helix, and various cli tools (Yazi, Lazygit, LazySQL, Slumber, Serpl, git blame via Tig) as a zen-mode IDE
• yazelix zellij, yazi and nushell adding a File Tree to Helix & helix-friendly keybindigs for zellij!
• zeco Share your zellij session over the internet, easy and secure!
• zellij-sessionizer A fuzzy finder-powered project switcher for Zellij sessions, inspired by ThePrimeagen/tmux-sessionizer
• zellix A nushell wrapper over helix that leverages the power of zellij to turn it into a plugin system!
• zide Zellij layouts + bash scripts to create an IDE-like file picker and editor workflow that works in any shell and with most any visual file pickers!
• zrw run commands in Zellij panes, wait for completion, and propagate exit codes

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