Sky-Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
zShxck@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

lemmy.ml

message-square
160
fedilink
516

I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

lemmy.ml

zShxck@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
message-square
160
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    58
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    I made the swich a year or two ago. It is much better I find. I leave it running in a tmux session on my server . with btop on one pane and switch to another with a split view to do work. It allows me to take a quick glance at any time while not taking the focus from what I was working on.

    • zShxck@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      2 years ago

      Don’t understand why someone should downvote you, take my upvote instead

      • 257m@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Might be missclick. Some people have fat fingers.

        • railsdev@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          deleted by creator

          • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            2 years ago

            So does mine (Voyager), and the misswipes is why I disabled it, which thankfully Voyagers allows to be configurable.

            • aeharding@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              2 years ago

              The latest Voyager also allows you to customize when the long swipe trigger point is now! Settings -> Gestures -> Long Swipe Trigger Point

        • zShxck@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          2 years ago

          I saw him with “-1” so actually 2 people not just one person have misclicked according to your theory. Hmmm i don’t know, but i hope it’s true, better then the alternative

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        2 years ago

        Lol no idea, some people just want to watch the world burn I suppose. Thanks kind stranger. Wishing you and yours the best.

  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    44
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Bottom for life (or at least until something with more stats comes out)

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Just found this too, through the rust post some days ago…but its quite obvious that from a usability context that btop is easier to use. With bottom you have to memorize all hotkeys wheres btop is showing them right in the interface.

      • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        2 years ago

        Yea. I was using bottom until I saw this and did a quick side-by-side comparison (nix-shell -p btop, I use NixOS BTW). btop’s UI is just so much better.

    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      2 years ago

      I’m really loving bottom

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        2 years ago

        Switch is that perfect sweet spot right in the middle. Very versatile.

    • Emperor Palpapeen@mastodon.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      @Static_Rocket @zShxck for a second there I thought he was revealing his favored sexual positions

    • 257m@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      The graphs look way better than btop.

      • dino@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        I agree here, although I have no clue why it looks so different.

    • Rin@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      it’s actually really pretty

    • Clot@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      2 years ago

      Bro literally every second software is written in rust nowadays 😭

      • Rin@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        it’s a good language

        • Clot@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 years ago

          Ik, I am also a rustacean

  • unalivejoy@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Ooh, it looks even better than gtop.

    Edit: Why does the menu look like this?

    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      78
      ·
      2 years ago

      50/50 on if it starts listing processes or launches a new game of Zelda.

      • 𝙣𝙪𝙠𝙚@yah.lol
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        17
        ·
        2 years ago

        Say no more, I’m sold

    • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 years ago

      Btop has been rewritten in C++, hence the ++

      • aport@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        23
        ·
        2 years ago

        Uh oh, time to rewrite it in rust

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          2 years ago

          https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/5

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          deleted by creator

        • gbin@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          The rust one is called bottom (btm) see the other thread :). When you already have a rust environment it is just at a cargo install away which is convenient.

    • zShxck@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 years ago

      Jeez, never saw that, mine just open the program

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        2 years ago

        Press ‘m’

    • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 years ago

      Nostalgia city…

  • hexloc@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    2 years ago

    That basically looks like every hollywood movie in existence

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 years ago

      hollywood is an installable app which when run takes over your machine with a fullscreen terminal and multiple panels with lots of dyanamic data to look like a hacking scene from a Hollywood film. :)

      You can exit it with Ctrl+C

      • Hammersbald@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        Deutsch
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Thank you for this, I installed it yesterday and it brought me immeasurable joy for a few minutes :D

    • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      2 years ago

      I use btop, iotop, jnettop, and radeontop. I rarely need any individual piece of information any of them but they make for an incredible spread of blinkenlights.

      • the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        You can use nvtop for monitoring your GPU, not as detailed as radeontop though but looks good

        • intrapt@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          deleted by creator

    • jherazob@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 years ago

      Nope, for that use this one, which is also in Debian-based distros and Docker

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 years ago

      Clearly OP Is hacking the Matrix.

  • Thurstylark@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    2 years ago

    Pro tip: configure a font that doesn’t show open circles for unused braille characters to have a higher priority than your current font to get better-looking graphs.

    On my system, braille characters are provided by DejaVu Serif, and it was as easy as just installing the font.

    • zShxck@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      2 years ago

      Where do you see open circles? I don’t understand sorry

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 years ago

        I think they mean the variable width of the graph’s columns. If you watch it as the graph moves, there are gaps at every 2 columns.

        I don’t understand though the thing about font priorities.
        And also, would that just change all fonts? Unless you mod the font to only have the braille characters…

      • Thurstylark@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 years ago

        No, you’ve got it set up right. Many people will have graphs where each character rectangle has open circles for the unused braile dots in the character block.

        Here’s an example.

    • PlexSheep@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Stop has a block mode, I just use that. Stop is so fancy I love it

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    2 years ago

    I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      yeah you need a decently fast hw accelerated terminal for it
      for example, the gnome terminal is pretty slow; if you’re using it, try running it in alacrity or kitty and see if that improves performance.

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        I’ll have to check it out. I’ve seen kitty mentioned a few times but I’m an oldschool xterm kinda guy lol

    • Rin@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 years ago

      really? I’ve never had much issues

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        2 years ago

        My laptop went bonkers trying to run it, maybe I have something misconfigured somewhere. I wanted to like it because it looks great, but I couldn’t because it was seemingly too resource intensive.

        • Rin@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          i see, that’s a bit of a shame because i enjoy it a lot.

          • brax@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2 years ago

            Somebody mentioned I may have been running bpytop, so maybe this whole thing is my bad. I honestly can’t remember what I ran now - I thought it was btop

    • lelgenio@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Maybe you used bpytop, not btop? They look the same iirc.

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Oh, you might actually be right there… I’m not sure now I didn’t realize there were alternatives.

        I remember trying it a while back when I found a list of fancy looking terminal apps. It was fancy, but it came at the cost of performance.

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    2 years ago

    Does noone use glances anymore?

    • rustyredox@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      2 years ago

      I do as well. I really appreciate the information density, key bindings, and optional web UI. Although I found if I leave glance is running for a prolonged amount of time, it has a tendency to crash from some python issue I haven’t dissected yet, as it takes so much time to reproduce.

    • Marud@lemmy.marud.fr
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 years ago

      I do.

    • Subverb@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Hey, just so you know, “no one” is two words.

  • El Gringo Loco@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome

    • zShxck@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Open btop in the terminal, then (note the terminal window must not be in fullscreen) right click with the mouse on the top bar of the terminal window and select “Always on top”.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    One I started using Bpytop, I couldn’t go back.

    • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      @JoMiran @zShxck That is very nice. I love the way you can toggle between disk space usage and disk I/O usage. Here is a btop of the machine that friendica.eskimo.com is running on:

    • Melco@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago
      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        It’s written in Python.

        EDIT: My original comment refers to going to Bpytop from just plain top. I believe btop is a C++ rewrite of bpytop.

  • namelivia@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 years ago

    I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while

    • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      2 years ago

      I used for a bit…

      What changed?

      • namelivia@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        It was cool but really I didn’t need to watch all that information

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Nice, I’ve tried gtop and atop before and they were pretty nice, but I usually fall back to htop because old habits die hard. I’ll give this a go!

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 years ago

    Meanwhile, every system (even Android) has good ol’ top. It works.

    • yum13241@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      It can’t even kill processes.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        2 years ago

        That’s what kill is for …

        • yum13241@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          2 years ago

          And then I forget the pid.

          • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            11
            ·
            2 years ago

            That’s what pkill is for.

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2 years ago

            It should be in the terminal right next to the one you have open for issuing the kill command

            Don’t tell me that you’re only using a single terminal window

  • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Hi Guiseppe

  • scumola@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 years ago

    btop doesn’t update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.

  • BrioxorMorbide@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 years ago

    Can it show each core’s frequency? Or is there anything other than htop that can do that?

    • tobimai@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      It does

      • BrioxorMorbide@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        I don’t see any option in 1.2.13, and https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/issues/190 suggests it isn’t implemented yet.

        • tobimai@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          True, i confused it with clock frequency.

Linux@lemmy.ml

linux@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !linux@lemmy.ml

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

  • Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
  • No misinformation
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

  • !opensource@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
  • !technology@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 455 users / day
  • 165 users / week
  • 4.14K users / month
  • 16.3K users / 6 months
  • 0 local subscribers
  • 53.2K subscribers
  • 7.29K Posts
  • 192K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • nooter692@lemmy.ml
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
  • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org