Ptyxis
by Christian Hergert
Container-oriented terminal
Dangerous permissions
Verified creator
GPL-3.0-or-later
v50.1
About
Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.
Features:
- Remembers current container when opening a new tab with support for podman, toolbox, distrobox, and more
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts
- Modern interface which integrates the palette with the window styling
- User-installable color palettes
- Support for preferences profiles with container integration
- Integrated color palettes with light and dark support
- Tabbed interface with tab overviews
- Efficient foreground process tracking denoting sudo and SSH
- Support for transparent terminal backgrounds
- Separate process mode for terminal-based applications
- Support for pinned tabs and saved sessions
- Terminal tabs are run within separate cgroups
- Terminal inspector to help when writing terminal-based applications
Permissions
4 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- full access to your entire file system
--filesystem=host - sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - development features (ptrace, can inspect other processes in its sandbox)
--allow=devel - network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - GPU acceleration
--device=dri
Who publishes this
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- verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
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