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Ptyxis

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

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  • Linux
  • Flathub
  • GNOME
  • Flatpak
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Container Virtualization
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No registration required
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  Tabbed interface
  7.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  8.  Color Palette

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

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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