Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

    Phoronix: Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

    While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

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  • unwind-protect
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2022
    • 143

    #2
    Thingie any good? Looks like Arch doesn't offer it.

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    • M@GOid
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2014
      • 2080

      #3
      Somehow somebody will find this revolting and will be criticizing Canonical for this decision. Even if he/she don't use Ubuntu. This is Phoronix Phoruns phor you.

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      • davidbepo
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2014
        • 935

        #4
        Originally posted by unwind-protect View Post
        Thingie any good? Looks like Arch doesn't offer it.
        nope, it sucks and the dev is an asshole

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        • Raka555
          Junior Member
          • Nov 2018
          • 674

          #5
          The Million Byte question is how much memory does it use?

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          • NeoMorpheus
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2022
            • 590

            #6
            Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
            Somehow somebody will find this revolting and will be criticizing Canonical for this decision. Even if he/she don't use Ubuntu. This is Phoronix Phoruns phor you.
            Damn!

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            • NeoMorpheus
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2022
              • 590

              #7
              If this thing is that good, they should simply work on it, show it as beta or whatever and state that it will replace the original.

              But these new names/new apps shit is what keeps Linux in general so disjointed.

              Insert the 15 standards XKCD meme here.

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              • User29
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2023
                • 245

                #8
                The point when linux finally cuts all its unix roots will come when people will stop using idiotic/misleading program names.

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                • Espionage724
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2024
                  • 322

                  #9
                  ptyxis seems odd to me instead of kgx for mainstream. Iirc ptyxis is more "Containers" oriented, which I let fly with whatever Fedora is prioritizing, but I find it interesting Ubuntu doing the switch to it too.

                  I heard of kgx first when openSUSE TW either mentioned it or had it default in GNOME.

                  On F41 beta ptyxis I initially ran into a bug with copy/pasting commands; it was fixed, but it wasn't a problem with kgx: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org...s-now/131691/9 (this is a minor but good example of the weakening QA going on with mainstream Linux that had me seek an alternative; rushing to re-invent wheels, while pushing broken stuff that easily shouldn't have passed a draft/basic use by a dev)

                  Also, the name is pronounced "tick-sys"; the P is silent I remembered the command by thinking "p, t, y, xis". Considering this is supposed to be a GUI Terminal accessible with convenience, I'm not sure how that command name flew past an initial concept (it's a cool name but lmao good luck trying to tell someone to open that on the fly without needing context; cmd or ps is Windows, gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal make sense, kgx is easy, I'm not sure how "yeah dog just open up ptyxis" can ever roll-off the tongue )
                  Last edited by Espionage724; 10 December 2024, 03:42 PM.

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                  • terawave
                    Junior Member
                    • Dec 2024
                    • 1

                    #10
                    Originally posted by unwind-protect View Post
                    Thingie any good? Looks like Arch doesn't offer it.
                    It's in the AUR. You can also get it from Flathub.

                    GNOME Console has only a few, very basic preferences. Ptyxis has preferences similar to GNOME Terminal and that makes it a better replacement for GNOME Terminal than GNOME Console is. The tab overview in Ptyxis is a neat feature when working with a lot of tabs. I can't say I notice a speed difference between the 3 but Ptyxis has become my default. Christian is planning to shove a full-featured IDE into the terminal which, while I don't quite follow the technical, sounds interesting.

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