Themes

Please see the up-to-date documentation for the most recent features.

Color

You can specify a color theme, that will be picked up by zellij in the following way:

themes:
  default:
    fg: [0,0,0]
    bg: [0,0,0]
    black: [0,0,0]
    red: [0,0,0]
    green: [0,0,0]
    yellow: [0,0,0]
    blue: [0,0,0]
    magenta: [0,0,0]
    cyan: [0,0,0]
    white: [0,0,0]
    orange: [0,0,0]

for truecolor, or:

themes:
  default:
    fg: 0
    bg: 0
    black: 0
    red: 0
    green: 0
    yellow: 0
    blue: 0
    magenta: 0
    cyan: 0
    white: 0
    orange: 0

for 256 color, or you can use hexdecimal color:

themes:
  default:
    fg: "#000000"
    bg: "#000000"
    black: "#000000"
    red: "#000000"
    green: "#000000"
    yellow: "#000000"
    blue: "#000000"
    magenta: "#000000"
    cyan: "#000000"
    white: "#000000"
    orange: "#000000"

If the theme is called default, then zellij will pick it on startup. To specify a different theme, run zellij with:

zellij options --theme [NAME]

or put the name in the configuration file with theme: [NAME] as follows:

keybinds:
  ...

# Choose the theme that is specified in the themes section.
theme: default

themes:
  default:
    fg: #000000
    ...

or If you don't want to modify the configuration file, just add a theme, you can use the themes directory.

themes is located in CONFIG_DIR/themes by default. You can check it through zellij setup --check.

If you place the theme file in this folder, zelij will automatically merge the themes.

And you can set the theme through the options (options --theme) as in the first method.

Here are some example themes.

UI

Certain non-color aspects of Zellij's interface can also be customized.

Rounded Pane Corners

If your font has support for rounded corners (most do), then you can enable them by adding the following to your configuration file:

ui:
  pane_frames:
    rounded_corners: true

Zellij should pick up this change automatically next time the config is loaded.