Prompt, the container-oriented terminal emulator, now is re-named to Ptyxis!

GNOME Developer Christian Hergert announced the Prompt terminal emulator a few months ago. It “marries the best of GNOME Builder’s seamless container support, the beauty of GNOME Text Editor, and the robustness of VTE.” described in the blog post.

Due to name confusion to other product, the terminal emulator now has a new name called “Ptyxis”, according to this post “The extremely nice people at Panic let me know they had a product that might be confused with Prompt and I agreed it could be confusing.”

image from blogs.gnome.org

Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers. It has a small ptyxis-agent that manages PTY, PID tracking, and container monitoring. And, it supports native “user session” even when in Flatpak, as well as Podman, Toolbox, Distrobox, and JHBuild.

How to Install Ptyxis terminal emulator

Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available out-of-box in Ubuntu 25.10. For old Ubuntu releases and other Linux, it’s available to install via Flatpak package.

For Linux Mint 21/22 and Fedora Workstation (with 3rd party repository enabled), simply search & install it from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.

Ptyxis in Linux Mint Software Manager

While, Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux may follow the steps below one by one to install it:

• First, enable flatpak support via official setup guide. For Debian/Ubuntu, simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command below:

  sudo apt install flatpak

  

• Next, install the terminal emulator by running command:

  flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/app.devsuite.Ptyxis.flatpakref

  

After installed the terminal, either search for & launch it from system app launcher, such as Gnome Overview or App Grid (log out and back in if app icon not visible):

Or bind the command flatpak run app.devsuite.Ptyxis to a keyboard shortcut.

And for future updates, run the command below to check & install:

flatpak update app.devsuite.Ptyxis

Uninstall

To uninstall Ptyxis Flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data app.devsuite.Ptyxis

Also run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless run-times.