Ptyxis Alternatives

Ptyxis is described as 'Terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers' and is a terminal emulator in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ptyxis for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and iPad apps. The best Ptyxis alternative is Tabby Terminal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ptyxis are ConEmu, Windows Terminal, Termux and iTerm2.

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Ptyxis

Terminal Emulator
Free • Open Source

Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.

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Ptyxis alternatives page was last updated Jul 9, 2024

Terminology
Terminology is a terminal emulator for e17.

What does it do?

It emulates a slightly extended vt100 with some extensions and bling thrown in.

Most escapes supported by xterm, rxvt etc. work Xterm 256 color escapes work Backgrounds (bitmap, scalable/vector, animated.
29 Terminology alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Terminal Emulator
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Terminology Features
Command line interface
Split tabs
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TEXTREME
TEXTREME is a lively, animated text editor with the feel of a retro videogame complete with sounds and game-like visual effects. The screen shakes as you type while particle effects decorate new characters.
103 TEXTREME alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
TEXTREME Features
Text editing
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Blink Shell
Blink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from the source at GitHub or purchased as a pre-compiled app from the App Store to support the developers.
83 Blink Shell alternatives
License model
- Paid • Open Source
Application types
- Terminal Emulator
- SSH Client
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
Blink Shell Features
SSH
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TotalTerminal
A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?
14 TotalTerminal alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Terminal Emulator
Platforms
- Mac
Discontinued
TotalTerminal is no longer under active development

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Sakura
sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It's a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don't need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a decent terminal emulator. Current terminal emulators based on VTE are gnome-terminal, XFCE Terminal, TermIt and...
58 Sakura alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Terminal Emulator
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Sakura Features
Gtk
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LXTerminal
LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency.
57 LXTerminal alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Terminal Emulator
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Pantheon Terminal
A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration. It's just a terminal, nothing more, nothing less.
54 Pantheon Terminal alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Terminal Emulator
Platforms
- Linux
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MacTerm
MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
83 MacTerm alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Terminal Emulator
- Shell
Platforms
- Mac
MacTerm Features
SSH
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ZOC
ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
64 ZOC alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Terminal Emulator
- SSH Client
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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ZOC Features
1. Support for scripting
2. Tabbed interface
3. Telnet client
4. SSH
5. BBS Support
6. Binary trace files
7. Incoming data as hex dump
8. Support for Hotkeys
9. Auto Highlighting
10. Stream Capture
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Station (Maui Applications)
Station is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access a UNIX shell in a graphical environment. Station features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.
53 Station (Maui Applications) alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Terminal Emulator
- Shell
Platforms
- Linux
Station (Maui Applications) Features
Command line interface
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Electerm
electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.
61 Electerm alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Terminal Emulator
- File Manager
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
Electerm Features
1. Built-in SSH client
2. Tabbed interface
3. SSH
4. Support for SFTP
5. Support for FTP
6. Dual Pane Support
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MATE Terminal
MATE Terminal is a terminal emulator for the MATE desktop environment. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical...
54 MATE Terminal alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Terminal Emulator
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana
- GhostBSD
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