zmx

Session attach/detach for the terminal.
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features

• Persist terminal shell sessions
• Ability to attach and detach from a shell session without it being killed
• Native terminal scrollback
• Multiple clients can connect to the same session
• Re-attaching to a session restores previous terminal state and output
• Send commands to a session without attaching to it
• Print scrollback history of a terminal session in plain text
• Works on mac and linux
• Use zmx as a zig package
• This project does NOT provide windows, tabs, or splits

demos

• zmx - intro
• zmx - ai portal

docs

Full documentation is available at https://zmx.sh:

• Install & Usage
• Shell Integration
• SSH Workflow
• Zig Package
• Configuration & Debugging
• Architecture & Philosophy
• Community Tools

build

Requires Zig v0.17.0:

# Build debug binary (./zig-out/bin/zmx)
zig build

# Install release binary to ~/.local/bin
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe --prefix ~/.local

See CONTRIBUTING.md for testing, local debugging, and contribution guidelines.