Ptyxis
Container-oriented terminal Source
Description
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
- https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/05/15/ptyxis-on-flathub/
- https://forums.puri.sm/t/list-of-apps-that-fit-and-function-well-post-them-here/11361/395
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/change-behavior.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/columns-and-rows.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/containers-menu.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/edit-profile.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/integrated-dark-mode.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/palette-selector.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/rename-tab.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/shortcut-editing.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/ssh-tracking.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/sudo-tracking.png
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/screenshots/tab-overview.png
Rating
Mobile Fit: 5Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!
Project status: early
This project has been in development for a short time only. It should work mostly fine, but expect bugs and an incomplete featureset.
Packaging
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Get it on Flathub!
Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/app.devsuite.Ptyxis.flatpakref
Build and install your own flatpak: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/org.gnome.Ptyxis.Devel.json
If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:
Install* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita
Programming languages: C
Build system: meson
AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/raw/main/data/org.gnome.Ptyxis.metainfo.xml.in.in