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Ptyxis, the free open-source container-oriented terminal emulator, released new 49.3 version few days ago.<\/p>\n
As you may know, Ptyxis is a GTK4 terminal emulator that’s default in Ubuntu since 25.10. It features first-class container integration with automatic discovery, direct spawning, and context preservation support for Podman, Toolbox, Distrobox, and JHBuild.<\/p>\n
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It also features smart process tracking and dynamic theming, that automatically adjust header bar color according to terminal sessions and\/or user privilege, as well as searchable tab overview, integrated developer tool, and GPU acceleration.<\/p>\n By releasing version 49.3, the terminal now also support APX containers<\/strong>. APX is the default package manager for Vanilla OS that supports installing packages from multiple sources inside containers without altering the root file-system.<\/p>\n The APX containers basically works with earlier versions of Ptyxis, but they use the label Now, the terminal has updated with official APX containers support, and everything should work as same as others.<\/p>\n Besides that, Ptyxis 49.3 improved force-quit fallback priority and tab focus handling when creating new tabs and windows. And, it now automatically clear X11 urgency hint (the notify of needing attention) when window becomes active.<\/p>\n It also added Norwegian Nynorsk translation, improved agent handling of For those who are interested in the next version 50 to be default in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, the Ptyxis 50 alpha added a logout inhibitor<\/strong> when tabs have active programs running that are not the shell process, which can be disabled by changing the And, it added dialog to change profile on per tab basis, new cell-width-scale profile option, as well as ability to set primary\/system-accent colors for user palettes. For more about the terminal, see the NEWS file in source page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ptyxis provides official installer package through Flatpak package<\/a>, which runs in sandbox environment.<\/p>\n Linux Mint and Fedora Workstation (with 3rd party repository enabled) can search & install it from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.<\/p>\n Ptyxis in Linux Mint Software Manager<\/p><\/div>\n For Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux, do the steps below one by one to install the terminal package:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ptyxis-1804.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nmanager:apx<\/code> instead of manager:distrobox<\/code> which cause unintended behavior, such as starting new terminal session as root by default rather than normal user account.<\/p>\n--no-tty<\/code>\/--tty<\/code> flags for distrobox containers, and added DESKTOP_SESSION info in the debugging information dialog, as well fixed some bugs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\ninhibit-logout<\/code> key value via gsettings command.<\/p>\nHow to Install Ptyxis terminal emulator<\/h3>\n
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sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n