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dj95 / zjstatus

A configurable statusbar plugin for zellij
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feature: add a hostname widget #11

Closed colemickens closed 11 months ago

colemickens commented 1 year ago

Hi,

It would be nice to have the hostname in the zellij status pane. I tend to open a new term emu and running zellij remotely when operating with a remote host.

I'm torn on this request, since I can just interpolate the hostname in using Nix, and I have the concept of a "hostname color" of sorts that doesn't really make sense as a widget, and I would be interpolating into the config with Nix anyway.

Curious if you have thoughts, or maybe other non-Nix users would like this?

dj95 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

thanks for the suggestion. I think it would be helpful to have the hostname in the widget.

However, it is not that easy to achieve this. Plugins run in a WASM sandbox, which right now do not provide a way to obtain the hostname. It's similar to the timezone, which we also need to set explicitely.

Maybe we can achieve this in a later stage, e.g. when zellij plugins are able to execute commands.

colemickens commented 1 year ago

Aha, makes sense. Without knowing much about how Zellij plugins work, I guess Zellij could make it available through the wasm plugin api too? But again, maybe overkill.

Feel free to close this if you want.

dj95 commented 11 months ago

I'll close this issue, since the feature is now available by utilising the command_ widget with zjstatus 0.9.0 and zellij 0.39.0.

Hope this is ok for you as an acceptable solution for your feature request.