A configurable and themable statusbar for zellij.

The goal of this statusbar is to provide a highly customizable and extensible statusbar for zellij. Single modules can be formatted separately. Due to the widget structure new modules can be created with ease.

Examples

tmux style
simple style
slanted style
example for swapping layouts with zjstatus
compact style (thanks to @segaja)
conky status (thanks to @benzwt) conky.conf
Demo GIF

Download the latest binary in the github releases. Place it somewhere, zellij is able to access it. Then the plugin can be included by referencing it in a layout file, e.g. the default layout one.

You could also refer to the plugin guide from zellij, after downloading the binary: https://zellij.dev/documentation/plugin-loading

Please ensure, that the configuration is correct.

Sometimes, especially when updating zjstatus, it might come to caching issues, which can be resolved by clearing it. Please keep in mind, that it will also clear the cache for running sessions and revokes granted permissions for plugins.

Add this repository to your inputs and then with the following overlay to your packages. Then you are able to install and refer to it with pkgs.zjstatus. When templating the config file, you can use ${pkgs.zjstatus}/bin/zjstatus.wasm as the path.

  inputs = {
    # ...

    zjstatus = {
      url = "github:dj95/zjstatus";
    };
  };


  # define the outputs of this flake - especially the home configurations
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, zjstatus, ... }@inputs:
  let
    inherit (inputs.nixpkgs.lib) attrValues;

    overlays = with inputs; [
      # ...
      (final: prev: {
        zjstatus = zjstatus.packages.${prev.system}.default;
      })
    ];

For configuring zjstatus, please follow the documentation.

Place the following configuration in your default layout file, e.g. ~/.config/zellij/layouts/default.kdl. Right after starting zellij, it will prompt for permissions, that needs to be granted in order for zjstatus to work. Simply navigate to the pane or click on it and press y. This must be repeated on updates. For more details on permissions, please visit the wiki.

layout {
    default_tab_template {
        children
        pane size=1 borderless=true {
            plugin location="https://github.com/dj95/zjstatus/releases/latest/download/zjstatus.wasm" {
                format_left   "{mode} #[fg=#89B4FA,bold]{session}"
                format_center "{tabs}"
                format_right  "{command_git_branch} {datetime}"
                format_space  ""

                border_enabled  "false"
                border_char     "─"
                border_format   "#[fg=#6C7086]{char}"
                border_position "top"

                hide_frame_for_single_pane "true"

                mode_normal  "#[bg=blue] "
                mode_tmux    "#[bg=#ffc387] "

                tab_normal   "#[fg=#6C7086] {name} "
                tab_active   "#[fg=#9399B2,bold,italic] {name} "

                command_git_branch_command     "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
                command_git_branch_format      "#[fg=blue] {stdout} "
                command_git_branch_interval    "10"
                command_git_branch_rendermode  "static"

                datetime        "#[fg=#6C7086,bold] {format} "
                datetime_format "%A, %d %b %Y %H:%M"
                datetime_timezone "Europe/Berlin"
            }
        }
    }
}

The documentation for the widgets can be found in the wiki.

The following widgets are available:

• command
• datetime
• mode
• notifications
• session
• swap layout
• tabs

Make sure you have rust and the wasm32-wasi target installed. If using nix, you could utilize the nix-shell in this repo for obtaining cargo and rustup. Then you'll only need to add the target with rustup target add wasm32-wasi.

With the toolchain, simply build zjstatus with cargo build. Then you are able to run the example configuration with zellij -l plugin-dev-workspace.kdl from the root of the repository.

If you are missing features or find some annoying bugs please feel free to submit an issue or a bugfix within a pull request :)

© 2024 Daniel Jankowski

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