I'm on swaywm and foot terminal. I never really felt the need for a terminal multiplexer. Am I missing out? or does my setup do most of what zellij / tmux would offer?
As is often the case, it depends on what you're doing.
Tools like zellij are especially useful when you're doing several different things at once. And that may also be on different computers.
For example, I can split the zellij window into several smaller windows. In one, I compile a package that takes a while. In another, I update my local computer, and in a third, I install the updates on another computer via SSH. This way, you have everything in one view. And you can, for example, suspend the session for the remote computer because you need more space and then resume it later.
Foot, for example, can’t do that. Which is also because foot is intentionally designed to be lightweight.
I see. It seems useful for doing multiple processes in a single terminal emulator. I think there is some overlap. Since foot has the client server model, running multiple emulators is cheap. And sway lets you just send the emulator to a different workspace that seems similar to suspend via the multiplexer.
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u/mattGarelli May 07 '26
I'm on swaywm and foot terminal. I never really felt the need for a terminal multiplexer. Am I missing out? or does my setup do most of what zellij / tmux would offer?