Ptyxis Terminal
Ranked 30 of 40 terminal emulators by recommenders
Recommended as a handy GNOME terminal with features gnome-terminal lacks and scriptable settings. Main caveat: small differences in hotkeys and rendering from similar terminals.
Recommended as a handy GNOME terminal with features gnome-terminal lacks and scriptable settings. Main caveat: small differences in hotkeys and rendering from similar terminals.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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| iTerm2 | 95 | 69 | 58% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | — |
| Warp terminal | 84 | 86 | 49% | 11 | 1 yr5 owners | — |
| Ptyxis TerminalThis page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Since I preferred to configure my terminal with GUI, I have switched to Ptyxis.”
“I’m really enjoying Ptyxis on Arch.”
“I also appreciate that I can script settings using gsettings”
“ptyxis has a few features that gnome-terminal doesn't and which are really handy”
“it should stay relatively similar the more tabs you open”
“replace this largely working piece of software”
“all have slight variations between simple things like rendering and more important things like hotkeys”
“I ended up removing the software every time I gave it a spin”
“It’s a solid terminal, but could they have chosen a worse name?”
“my backup terminal is Ptyxis, authored by Christian Hergert”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.