If you use Zellij as your terminal multiplexer on macOS, you’ve probably hit the same wall I did: the default keybindings are built around Ctrl, but on macOS inside a modern terminal like Ghostty, Ctrl is a warzone. This post documents the full journey of finding a setup that actually works — including all the wrong turns.

The Problem with Ctrl on macOS

Zellij’s defaults use Ctrl as the modifier for every mode-entry key: Ctrl+T for tabs, Ctrl+P for panes, Ctrl+O for sessions, and so on. On macOS, this causes immediate conflicts:

I had heard about Oh my Posh several years ago. It was in the context of Oh my Zsh ¹ Oh My Posh was its Powershell cousin.

Since (AFAIK) Powershell is on Windows, and I haven’t used Windows in so many years, I had no use of it.

Then few days ago, I came across XeroLinux ²

The shell prompt looked very nice. I had assumed it must be starship which was my prompt engine till that point. But looking at XeroLinux’s github, I could not find starship.toml but I found Oh my Posh config instead.

Could my eyes be deceiving me? 😄

So I searched, and it turns out it is (now?) shell agnostic Prompt engine.

The site has install instructions for macOS as well as Linux (and Windows of course 😄) It supports a lot of different shells, including zsh. They also have good documentation about how to integrate it with different shells. I used the one for zsh

Currently, I’m using XeroLinux’s config almost as-is. That is what I wanted anyway 😄

I wish I could post screenshots of my terminal, but it does not need to be my terminal. Since I use the same config as XeroLinux, and since Oh-my-Posh is OS and shell agnostic, why not check XeroLinux screenshot directly ? Check the beautiful prompt near the bottom of the terminal window. 👆

I had saved a pencil drawing of a tortoise from the internet. Unfortunately I can not find the link to the original.

I wanted to try a light pencil layer first and then a final layer, but since I did not play around with brushes too much, it did not turn out the way I wanted.

Looking back, I should have used lighter and broader pencil for the first layer, and then HB, followed by darker (2B ?) at the end.

This image inspired by a cartoon appeared in the local newspaper. I liked how simple drawing the robot was. (I’m always looking for simple-to-draw sketches)

For the first time, I used color (albeit very tiny, still…) The original sketch had light blue hue for the body of the robot, but I decided not to paint the whole sketch. Just the eyes to draw viewer’s attention was enough.

These are two main characters of O Human Star Comic

When I looked at this comics, I really liked how simple the character faces were. So decided to see if I can draw them. I am likely to draw more characters from this comic in the future.

These two faces were drawn by looking at this page

This is the first time I used layers in HiPaint.

First layer is the a pencil drawing. I was surprised how “real” it felt. The graininess of the HB Pencil (when zoomed) looked close to actual marks made by HB pencil on the paper. (Drawing on the glass surface wasn’t bad either - kudos to the hardware)

The doodle comes from Dave Gray’s old video (Not sure of the source - sorry) But doodle itself was not the interesting thing.

Today I discovered that the Whiteboard app has excellent pen tool. I used the Size 10, and I was able to create excellent calligraphy (if I may say so myself 🫣)

Normally I add the date and name in some other app, but I could not resist writing the date in calligraphy fashion. So I did.

This is my attempt to create a sketchnote of the session he delivered during the World Sketchnote Week. ¹

Looking at other people’s sketchnotes of this session, I realize that I need to do much better. I’ve just reproduced parts of sketches from his session.

Drawing Dave’s face was original idea, rest of it seems unconnected ideas. I should have used banners, containers, lettering etc.

All the (English) words (sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books …) are made up of only 26 alphabets. (Let us leave aside punctuation marks for now 😉)

Similarly, most the (basic) drawing is made up of these 12 basic shapes, hence the visual alphabets.

This English phrase makes it easy to remember

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First Install Harper using the method appropriate for your OS.

Then add the following to languages.toml

[language-server.harper-ls]
command = "harper-ls"
args = ["--stdio"]

Restart Helix Editor.

Now you should see squiggly lines under incorrectly spelled words. 🎉

In order to see (and possibly choose) the correct spelling, take the cursor on the error and space a (Code actions)