Why Ptyxis is a Game-Changer for Embedded Terminal Emulation

Why Ptyxis is a Game-Changer for Embedded Terminal Emulation

When you’re building applications that need terminal-like functionality, embedding a full terminal emulator can feel like overkill. Enter Ptyxis—a lightweight, versatile tool for integrating terminal emulation directly within your application. Here’s a breakdown of why Ptyxis might be the perfect fit for developers looking to add a terminal without the bloat.

What is Ptyxis?

Ptyxis is designed for embedding terminal emulation into applications, especially those built on GNOME or GTK. Rather than a one-size-fits-all terminal emulator, Ptyxis focuses on the essentials, delivering streamlined, customizable terminal functionality.

kitty terminal themes

Kitty is a very nice and fast terminal that uses GPU, you can find more information here. For this terminal there are lot of themes available that you can checkout on the kitty themes github page here.

You can checkout the themes with

git clone https://github.com/dexpota/kitty-themes ~/.config/kitty/kitty-themes

Once you have done that, you can use the theme with adding a line in kitty.conf as :

include

unicode characters in urxvt terminal

If you quickly want to type the unicode character in urxvt terminal, then try doing this:

Press Shift+Ctrl and then type the number for the unicode. 🙂

Color schemes for your terminal

Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal and Pantheon Terminal – here is the github page

https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh/

ranger – try terminal file manager

ranger is a terminal file manager, just install and run and have some fun.

Tip: You might want to try it on uxrvt terminal and in Photos folder once.

Name : ranger

Version : 1.7.2

Release : 8.fc28

Arch : noarch

Size : 1.2 M

Source : ranger-1.7.2-8.fc28.src.rpm

Repo : @System

From repo : fedora

Summary : A flexible console file manager

URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger/

License : GPLv3+

Description : Ranger is a free console file manager that gives you greater flexibility and a

good overview of your files without having to leave your *nix console. It

visualizes the directory tree in two dimensions: the directory hierarchy on

one, lists of files on the other, with a preview to the right so you know where

you’ll be going.

terminal in browser.

Quite a lot of time, we are spending most of the time on Browsers and during this time, leaving the browser just to do some ls or some command for quickly checking something does not look productive and here is where butterfly is useful.

Just install butterfly with:

pip install butterfly

and then head over to :

http://localhost:57575

and voila you have a terminal in your browser.

sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.

I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory.

To install:

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and the details of the package:

Name        : sakura

Arch : i686

Version     : 2.3.8

Release     : 1.fc14

Size        : 137 k

Repo        : installed

From repo   : fedora

Summary     : Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE

URL : http://pleyades.net/david/sakura.php

License     : GPLv2

Description : Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It’s a terminal emulator

with few dependencies, so you don’t need a full GNOME desktop installed to

have a decent terminal emulator.

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