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 (⭐206) quickly navigate panes (clone of nvim's harpoon)
• neolij (⭐30) Seamless Neovim/Zellij integration with built-in navigation, pane/tab management, and Lua scripting.
• room (⭐295) quickly search and switch tabs 🖤
• vim-zellij-navigator (⭐178) Seamless navigation with vim in zellij
• zellij-jump-list (⭐26) navigate your motions from pane-to-pane (similar to Vim, Neovim, and Emacs jump list)
• zellij-new-tab-next-to-current (⭐6) creates new tabs next to the current tab instead of at the end of the tab bar
• zellij-nvim-nav-plugin (⭐12) Another plugin for seamless navigation with neovim/vim windows
• zellij-pane-picker (⭐34) quickly switch, star, and jump to panes with customizable keyboard shortcuts
• zellij-leap (⭐0) Switch to tabs / panes / sessions with as few keys as possible
• zjpane (⭐13) Navigate between zellij panes easily

Session Management

• lazy-zellij (⭐11) an fzf session picker with live preview (tabs, per-pane commands, screen snapshot), systemd autostart, and remote sessions over SSH
• noren (⭐2) A sesh-style session manager for zellij - brush through the curtain into any project
• zbuffers (⭐24) a minimal and convenient way to switch between tabs, inspired by Emacs vertico-buffers and Zellij session-manager
• zellij-autolock (⭐161) Automatically lock Zellij depending on the command in the focused pane. Seamless navigation for Vim and more. Pairs well with zellij.vim (⭐65).
• zellij-bookmarks (⭐46) manage command bookmarks and quickly insert them into the terminal
• zellij-choose-tree (⭐47) quickly switch between sessions, inspired by tmux choose-tree
• zellij-favs (⭐23) adds a way to save favorites sessions and flush the others
• zellij-sessionizer (⭐91) create sessions based on folder names
• zellij-switch (⭐48) switching between sessions in CLI using zellij pipe
• zellij-tabula (⭐7) automatically rename tabs based on the current working directory of the contained panes
• zellij-worktree (⭐7) A Zellij plugin for managing git worktrees
• zjsh (⭐9) a Zellij session launcher with project config, session discovery, resurrection support, zoxide integration, and fzf/gum support
• zsm (⭐36) A zoxide-integrated session switcher with support for default layouts

Status Bar

• zellij-cb (⭐52) a customizable compact bar for Zellij
• zellij-datetime (⭐54) adds a date and time pane to your Zellij
• zellij-load (⭐11) show system resources such as CPU, memory and GPU usage. Similar to tmux cpu-usage
• zellij-what-time (⭐16) shows host system date and/or time in the status bar. Inspired by zellij-datetime
• zjstatus (⭐1k) a configurable, themeable statusbar plugin
• zjstatus-hints (⭐85) adds mode-aware key binding hints to zjstatus
• zjstatus-hints (fork) (⭐3) adds mode-aware key binding hints to zjstatus, with styling, keybind discovery, and width-aware fitting
• zj-status-bar (⭐36) an opinionated fork of the compact-bar plugin

UI & Modes

• zellij-autolock (⭐161) Automatically lock Zellij depending on the command in the focused pane, seamless navigation for Vim, pairs well with zellij.vim.
• zellij-background-tint (⭐2) Subtly tint background color of opened panes to make them visually distinct
• zellij-delaylock (⭐1) A simple plugin that would help to get back to locked mode after hitting the leader for tmux or unlock, timeout configurable
• zellij-forgot (⭐257) swiftly present and access your keybinds (and more)
• zellij-getmode (⭐0) a simple utility plugin that gets the current input mode of zellij
• zellij-layoutswitch (⭐3) switch between layouts and tab panes natively & efficiently without shell bloat.
• zellij-newtab-plus (⭐14) create named tabs and navigate using zoxide in one keybind
• zellij-tab-bar-indexed (⭐17) a tab-bar plugin that adds numeric indices to tabs for quick navigation
• zellij-vertical-tabs (⭐61) a plugin that displays tabs vertically as rows
• zellij-workspace (⭐39) apply layouts to current session
• zjswitcher (⭐14) automatically switch between normal mode and locked mode

Search

• grab (⭐23) A fuzzy finder (files, structs, enums, functions) for Rust devs
• monocole (⭐190) fuzzy find of file names and contents
• zellij-history-selector (⭐8) floating history picker for shell, IPython, SQLite, clipboard, and custom sources with preview and insert/copy/execute actions
• zextract (⭐9) popup selector that will identify different type of data elemtens and allow for an easy select and copy, heavily inspired by tmux-fingers, fzf-links and others but done in 100% rust and in one combined plugin.

Utilities

• ghost (⭐68) spawn floating command terminal pane (interactive zrf)
• multitask (⭐154) a mini-CI as a Zellij plugin
• zellij-attention (⭐59) add notification icons to tab names when panes need attention, designed for Claude Code
• zellij-bookmarks (⭐46) manage command bookmarks and quickly insert them into the terminal
• zellij-link-extended (⭐3) extends the built-in link plugin to open files, directories, and links via a configurable command
• zellij-notepad (⭐11) floating notepad pane with configurable editor, position, and timestamped notes
• zellij-palette (⭐11) a fuzzy command palette for pane, tab, session, and theme actions, with custom commands and shell-backed sources
• zellij-playbooks (⭐20) browse, select, and execute commands from playbook files directly in the terminal
• zellij-qr-share (⭐9) show a web token as a QR code in the terminal for fast mobile authentication in the web UI.
• zellij-send-keys (⭐23) send text/commands to specific panes like tmux send-keys
• zj-quit (⭐46) a friendly quit plugin for zellij

Coding Agent Management

• showy-quota (⭐17) a standalone WASM status bar plugin showing live AI coding-plan quotas (Codex, Claude, Copilot, Gemini…), driven by CodexBar
• opencode-zellij-namer (⭐67) AI-powered dynamic session naming for OpenCode, automatically renames sessions based on project context
• zellaude (⭐107) a status bar plugin that shows Claude Code activity indicators on tabs
• zellij-ai-session (⭐1) - Find, search and resume AI coding sessions (Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode etc.) by project directly inside Zellij.
• zellij-ai-stats (⭐2) a themed powerline bar showing weekly quota usage and reset times for Claude Code and Codex, plus how many agent sessions are running
• zj-agents (⭐4) background engine + floating sidebar: classify coding-agent panes (Idle/Working/Blocked/Done) from process + viewport manifests, desktop notifications; Claude, Codex, Grok, Pi, OMP
• zj-agent-mob (⭐3) a floating panel tracking Claude Code and Codex agents across every session: live status, current task, jump-to-pane across sessions, approve/reject permission prompts, and kill runaways
• zj-radar (⭐32) a pinned sidebar showing which AI agents (Claude Code, Codex) are working, done, or waiting for you across all tabs, with click-to-jump

External Tools

• gitpod.zellij (⭐9) Zellij plugin for Gitpod, with .gitpod.yml tasks integration
• jbz (Just Bacon Zellij) (⭐47) display your just commands wrapped in bacon
• zellijira (⭐3) Manage sessions around on Jira issues
• zellit (⭐19) A terminal UI for creating, editing, and applying Zellij themes.
• zellij-theme-configurator A web GUI for creating and exporting Zellij themes
• zellij-vscode-toolkit (⭐9) VS Code extension with IntelliSense, validation, hover docs, color preview, and snippets for Zellij config and layout files
• zj-docker (⭐43) display docker containers and perform basic operations
• zj-git-branch (⭐9) Manage git branches
• zj-hooker (⭐2) Execute commmands and scripts on Zellij session attach/detach
• zj-podman (⭐0) display podman containers and perform basic operations

Integrations

• fzf-zellij (⭐16) Shell script to start fzf in a Zellij floating pane.
• theylix Zellij, Helix, and various cli tools (Yazi (⭐41k), Lazygit, LazySQL, Slumber, Serpl, git blame via Tig) as a zen-mode IDE
• yazelix (⭐1.1k) zellij, yazi and nushell adding a File Tree to Helix & helix-friendly keybindigs for zellij!
• zeco (⭐78) Share your zellij session over the internet, easy and secure!
• zellij-sessionizer (⭐48) A fuzzy finder-powered project switcher for Zellij sessions, inspired by ThePrimeagen/tmux-sessionizer
• zellij-urlview (⭐1) Quickly open displayed url(s)! Inspired by tmux-urlview (⭐291)
• zellix (⭐50) A nushell wrapper over helix that leverages the power of zellij to turn it into a plugin system!
• zide (⭐337) 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 (⭐4) 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 (⭐11)
• Learnings from developing a zellij plugin an informative blog post from the creator of zjstatus (⭐1k)
• 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