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

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

zbuffers a minimal and convenient way to switch between tabs, inspired by Emacs vertico-buffers and Zellij session-manager <<<<<<< add-zellij-attention
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 =======

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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

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

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

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

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

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