Ptyxis
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Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Container Virtualization
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- Tabbed interface
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Color Palette
Tags
- transparent-background
- container-management
- GNOME
- terminal-app
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K0RR added Ptyxis as alternative to Contour Terminal Emulator- NuncioBitis reviewed Ptyxis
Like a more modern version of gnome-terminal (which it's replacing in Ubuntu 25.10)
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Ptyxis information
Developed by
Christian Hergert Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
What is Ptyxis?
Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.
Features:
- Remembers current container when opening a new tab with support for podman, toolbox, distrobox, and more
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts
- Modern interface which integrates the palette with the window styling
- User-installable color palettes
- Support for preferences profiles with container integration
- Integrated color palettes with light and dark support
- Tabbed interface with tab overviews
- Efficient foreground process tracking denoting sudo and SSH
- Support for transparent terminal backgrounds
- Separate process mode for terminal-based applications
- Support for pinned tabs and saved sessions
- Terminal tabs are run within separate cgroups
- Terminal inspector to help when writing terminal-based applications
Comments and Reviews
Like a more modern version of gnome-terminal (which it's replacing in Ubuntu 25.10)