diff --git a/terminatorlib/terminatorterm.py b/terminatorlib/terminatorterm.py
index 8f674f29..a56474f0 100755
--- a/terminatorlib/terminatorterm.py
+++ b/terminatorlib/terminatorterm.py
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ text/plain
       self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(www|ftp)[" + hostchars + "]*\.[" + hostchars + ".]+(:[0-9]+)?(" + urlpath + ")?" + rboundry + "/?")
       self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(mailto:)?[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9.+-]*@[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[.a-zA-Z0-9-]*" + rboundry)
       self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + '''news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?''' + rboundry)
-      self.matches['apturl'] = self._vte.match_add ('\\bapt.*\\b')
+      self.matches['apturl'] = self._vte.match_add ('\\bapt:/?/?\w+\\b') # apt+http isn't supported
       # if the url looks like a Launchpad changelog closure entry LP: #92953 - make it a url to http://bugs.launchpad.net
       # the regular expression is similar to the perl one specified in the Ubuntu Policy Manual - /lp:\s+\#\d+(?:,\s*\#\d+)*/i
       self.matches['launchpad-bug'] = self._vte.match_add ('\\b(lp|LP):?\s?#?[0-9]+(,\s*#?[0-9]+)*\\b')