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Hi all, I'm the author of this article. Happy to answer any questions.
Not a question, but Zellij is awesome! This looks like a great new feature, too. :)
Can I use this as an alternative to VibeTunnel? Throw this up on a server and control remote SSH sessions of Claude Code over Tailscale?
was working on something similar to this last week, but i ended up going with SSE instead of websockets for the control channel.

the goal was to use webauthn to authenticate ssh sessions from the browser with a charm/wish ssh app backend.

This looks really nice, too bad I can't use it because my company blocks websockets.
Total inspiration, thanks bud.
iTerm2 has a feature where it can display tmux tabs as native tabs [0] which is called tmux control mode [1] (most other terminal emulators haven't picked up this feature [2], but I wish they did).

Would it make sense for Zellij to also support the tmux control mode protocol, and interoperate with terminal emulators that support it?

Another thing (less ambitious): is it possible to have an option to integrate with native scrolling? Like shpool [3] does. I suppose it's not possible to enable it by default since it has a frame around the session, but maybe this frame could be disabled if I want native scrolling back? Native scrolling helps mainly with navigating by clicking on the native scrollbar that most terminal emulators have (mouse scrolling works on Zellij though, which is very cool).

[0] https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

[1] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/189805/what-termina...

[3] https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool

Does anyone else feel uneasy about a terminal extending your desktop/server’s exposure beyond its current attack surface?