Ability to change Welcome Screen layout text

[mikebcbc]

Is there any way the "Hi from ZelliJ!" text can be user-editable? I see its hardcoded into the plugin now and dont see a way around that aside from re-building the plugin with new text. Would be great to supply our own string to change this with ease?

[robrecord]

Yes please. Either this, or the option to switch it off entirely. I find it a bit jarring every time I see it; it's like a massive "hello world" - I think our tools should sit in the background as much as possible to allow us to work without friction. Many thanks.

[cristiand391]

Yes please. Either this, or the option to switch it off entirely. I find it a bit jarring every time I see it; it's like a massive "hello world" - I think our tools should sit in the background as much as possible to allow us to work without friction. Many thanks.

You can disabe the message by setting welcome_screen to false:
https://zellij.dev/documentation/welcome-screen-alias.html?highlight=welcome_screen#the-welcome-screen-alias

[robrecord]

Yes please. Either this, or the option to switch it off entirely. I find it a bit jarring every time I see it; it's like a massive "hello world" - I think our tools should sit in the background as much as possible to allow us to work without friction. Many thanks.

You can disabe the message by setting welcome_screen to false: https://zellij.dev/documentation/welcome-screen-alias.html?highlight=welcome_screen#the-welcome-screen-alias

I think this disables the session manager on startup? Rather than the message above the session manager. I rely on the session manager at startup so I would like not to have to disable it.

Edit: I can see this disables the surrounds of the session manager, making it appear top left instead of centralised. Thank you.

For those wishing to use this, it should go into config under plugins:

plugins {
    ...others...
    welcome-screen location="zellij:session-manager" {
        welcome_screen false
    }
}