I recently found out that fresh installs of Fedora 41 Workstation Edition get Ptyxis instead of GNOME Terminal by default. I went ahead and installed Ptyxis, but since I’m not yet a huge power user on the terminal, the only significant thing I noticed was the title bar changing color when using root privileges via sudo. What other things do you like about it?
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I use ptyxis for my game scripts with launching servers from a desktop launcher like this (notes):
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "ptyxis --standalone --title='2004Scape Server — ' -- ~/'Projects/2004Scape-Server/scripts/localhost-server-start.sh'"
And have it for an OS updater on keyboard shortcut:
ptyxis --standalone --title='Fedora Updater — ' -- bash -c "sudo dnf clean 'all' && sudo dnf update -y && sync && sudo flatpak update && flatpak update && sync && tracker3 reset --filesystem --rss && rm -Rf ~/'.cache/mesa_shader_cache'*'/'* && sudo restorecon -F -I -R ~ && sudo fstrim --all --verbose && sync && read -n '1' -s -r -p 'Done. Press any key to exit.' && sleep '1'"
I can do those from other Terminals, but ptyxis is kind of interesting with how the titlebar displays the name and then the command/script ran, so I put an em dash and space after the --title like Fedora Updater — .
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You can change font size with Ctrl+MouseScroll, just like in browser and other GNOME text editors. Don’t think that was a thing in the old terminal.
Also when you copy text it displays a small pop-up to inform you it’s copied.