feat: use zellij as my daily terminal environemnt, remote tmux

home/base/server/tmux/default.nix

@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-{pkgs, ...}: {
-  programs.tmux = {
-    enable = true;
-    shell = "${pkgs.nushellFull}/bin/nu";
-
-    # Resize the window to the size of the smallest session for which it is the current window.
-    #
-    aggressiveResize = true;
-
-    # https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible
-    # tmux-sensible overwrites default tmux shortcuts, makes them more sane.
-    sensibleOnTop = true;
-
-    # https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/wiki/Image-preview-within-tmux
-    extraConfig = ''
-      set -g allow-passthrough on
-
-      set -ga update-environment TERM
-      set -ga update-environment TERM_PROGRAM
-    '';
-    # keyMode = "vi";  # default is emacs
-
-    baseIndex = 1; # start index from 1
-    escapeTime = 0; # do not wait for escape key
-
-    plugins = with pkgs.tmuxPlugins; [
-      {
-        # theme
-        # https://github.com/catppuccin/tmux
-        plugin = catppuccin;
-        extraConfig = ''
-          set -g @catppuccin_flavour 'mocha' # or frappe, macchiato, mocha
-          set -g @catppuccin_window_status_enable "yes"
-        '';
-      }
-
-      # https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
-      # Enables copying to system clipboard.
-      yank
-
-      {
-        # https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
-        # Manually persists tmux environment across system restarts.
-        #   prefix + Ctrl-s - save
-        #   prefix + Ctrl-r - restore
-        #
-        plugin = resurrect;
-        # Restore Neovim sessions
-        extraConfig = "set -g @resurrect-strategy-nvim 'session'";
-      }
-
-      # set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-cpu'
-      {
-        plugin = cpu;
-        extraConfig = ''
-          set -g status-right '#{cpu_bg_color} CPU: #{cpu_icon} #{cpu_percentage} | %a %h-%d %H:%M '
-        '';
-      }
-    ];
-  };
-}

home/base/server/zellij/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Zellij - A workspace lives in your terminal
+
+Zellij is a terminal workspace with batteries included.
+At its core, it is a terminal multiplexer (similar to tmux and screen), but this is merely its infrastructure layer.
+
+Zellij is very user-friendly and easy to use, with a step-by-step hint system that will help you get to know the keybindings, which is very like the Neovim or helix.
+
+> By contrast, tmux's key design is counterintuitive, there is no prompt system, and the plug-in performance is rubbish. It's really a pain to use.
+> tmux's inital release was in 2007, it's too old, I would recommend any users that do not have a experience with multiplexer to use zellij instead of tmux.
+
+## Why use zellij as the detault terminal environment?
+
+By auto start zellij on shell login, and exit the shell session on zellij exit, we can use zellij as the default terminal environment.
+
+By this way, We will only use the most basic features of the terminal emulator(kitty/alacritty/wezterm/...),
+while most of the functions of terminal are provided by zellij.
+Thus we can easily switch to any terminal emulator without losing any key functions,
+and do not need to take care of the differences between different terminal emulators.
+
+And Zellij can be used not only locally, but also on any remote server, which is very convenient. Learn once and use everywhere!
+
+> Yeah, you didn't misread it, zellij is very suitable for not only remotely, but also locally!
+
+Some features such as search/copy/scrollback in different terminal emulators are implemented in different ways, and has different user experience.
+For example, Wezterm's default search function is very basic, and it's not easy to use. Kitty's scrollback search/copy is really tricky to use.
+As for some Editor such as Neovim, its intergrated terminal is really useful, but zellij is more powerful and useful than it, and more stable!
+Zellij overcomes these problems, and provides a unified user experience for all terminal emulators!
+
+Teminal emulators should only be responsible for displaying characters.

home/base/server/zellij/default.nix

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ in {
         ^zellij
       }
 
-      # auto exit the shell session when zellij exit
+      # Auto exit the shell session when zellij exit
+      $env.ZELLIJ_AUTO_EXIT = "true" # enable auto exit
       if "ZELLIJ_AUTO_EXIT" in $env and $env.ZELLIJ_AUTO_EXIT == "true" {
         exit
       }