Zellij¶

Zellij is a modern terminal workspace and multiplexer written in Rust. It provides panes, tabs, layouts, and plugin support.

References: https://zellij.dev/

Repository: https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij

Installation¶

Download (for x86_64 musl)

Download URL (Latest Release, x86_64 musl): https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/releases/latest/download/zellij-no-web-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

Download, extract, make executable and place in PATH (use /tmp or your Downloads folder):

# choose a download directory: prefer $HOME/Downloads, fall back to /tmp
DOWNLOAD_DIR="${DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME/Downloads}"
if [ ! -d "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}" ]; then
    DOWNLOAD_DIR="/tmp"
fi

URL="https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/releases/latest/download/zellij-no-web-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

echo "Using download directory: ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}"
curl -L -o "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/zellij.tar.gz" "$URL"
tar -C "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}" -xzf "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/zellij.tar.gz"
chmod +x "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/zellij"
sudo mv "${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/zellij" /usr/local/bin/
zellij --version
echo "Zellij installed successfully."

Additional Information¶

To use mouse right click paste, use shift + right click.
copy_command "wl-copy" string needs to be added/enabled in the config for ubuntu auto copy on text selection to work. You may need to install wl-clipboard package for this. Config file is located at ~/.config/zellij/config.kdl.
For more information, refer to the [official documentation](https://zellij.dev/documentation