Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

[Jumbotron]

nope, it sucks and the dev is an asshole

Benchmarks from you or YOU’RE the asshole. And Linux wouldn’t exist without assholes so that’s an invalid criteria.

[davidbepo]

Benchmarks from you or YOU’RE the asshole. And Linux wouldn’t exist without assholes so that’s an invalid criteria.

benchmarks of what?
wtf are you even talking about

[uid313]

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

Yeah it is good because the guy who made did some very nice work on improving the performance of libvte then ended up creating his own terminal emulator. It has great performance, and also it has lots of color schemes such as Dracula, Gruvbox, Solarized, Zenburn, etc.
It changes the color of the header bar if you use ssh or sudo.

It's available on Flathub.

https://flathub.org/apps/app.devsuite.Ptyxis

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 agree. I like Ptyxis but it has more of a container focus so I think GNOME Console is better choice for most ordinary users.

[woddy]

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.

Perhaps you missed the fact that in this case, there is no decision by Canonical, Ubuntu continues to use the usual terminal by default.

[microchip8]

What's in a name???

[Vermilion]

... and the dev is an asshole

I call BS. Chergert does a great job in a lot of apps and he's always responsive in bug reports and MRs.

[totoz]

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 )

Personally I don't find "kgx" really easy to remember. The application is called "Console" but the project/process name is "kgx"... It took me some time to figure it out.

I liked "Gnome Terminal"/gnome-terminal, it was coherent and explicit.
I wonder why Console's process name is not gnome-console instead of kgx.
And now Ptyxis... Its name is coherent with process/project's name, but the name does not refer to "a terminal application". And its icon is a bit weird too...

I was a bit confused when I discovered that Console had replaced Gnome Terminal as default terminal for Gnome (I found it was a rewrite for gtk4: ok, but why less featured?)... Now I discover Ptyxis. I quickly tried it, it looks nice (more featured than Console) and I think I could prefer it over Gnome Terminal and Console, but that makes a third "Terminal for Gnome" application. At the end, which one is the official terminal? Which ones will be actively maintained and enhanced along Gnome's desktop guidelines/roadmap?

[peterdk]

I tried it earlier but had really weird font rendering on a 200% 4k monitor. Maybe I'll try again and report a bug if it's still there.

[davidbepo]

I call BS. Chergert does a great job in a lot of apps and he's always responsive in bug reports and MRs.

do i link the thread where he not only rejected but mocked a basic feature i asked for?

[Espionage724]

do i link the thread where he not only rejected but mocked a basic feature i asked for?

If you didn't bother linking before writing that comment, I assume it's probably some niche feature

I'm curious to read the thread!