Ability to hide or auto-hide status bar after timeout?

[multivac61]

Thank you for this beautiful plugin. I want to ask if it is possible to hide the statusbar using a shortcut? Alternatively auto-hide it after x seconds.

Best!

[dj95]

Hey,

thanks for your kind words.

Unfortunately I think it won't be possible to hide the statusbar with a shortcut from within zjstatus. Plugins are only allowed to process keys, that are directly sent into their pane. Otherwise plugins would be able to read passwords or other sensitive information, which implies a critical impact on the security. Therefore we cannot achieve it from within the plugin.

Hiding it after X seconds might be possible. zjstatus will then only pop up on certain events (like changing the mode, creating a pane/tab). Would this fit into your use case?

[multivac61]

Auto hide would be amazing!

[dj95]

I've tried to implement the behaviour, but came across a bug within rendering. Auto hiding can be finished, when the following bug is resolved: zellij-org/zellij#2949

[dj95]

Together with the pipes feature and the upcoming zjstatus feature of remote control it would also be possible to implement a shortcut for hiding zjstatus. The only thing preventing me from implementing this is the still open rendering issue :/

[roland-5]

Glitches appears or something else?

[dj95]

Yes @roland-5 , like in the screenshots of the linked zellij issue. There are weird glitches in the complete terminal, when a pane is hidden, that is specified in a layout file.

[dj95]

Thanks to this comment (zellij-org/zellij#2949 (comment)), I was able to implement the feature. There are just some problems with the focus after showing zjstatus again. Another problems might be race conditions, when pipes to zjstatus are called to quickly after another (which could be invoked by shortcuts).

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