Ptyxis

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

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Ptyxis, and it has gotten 7 likes

Ptyxis was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on May 20, 2024 and this page was last updated Jul 9, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

Nuncio Bitis

★★★★★

Sep 24, 2025

Like a more modern version of gnome-terminal (which it's replacing in Ubuntu 25.10)

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

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