Terminal
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Terminal

Container-oriented terminal

Christian Hergert

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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

Version

v50.1Mar 20, 2026