Good, lightweight GUI-based process monitor for Linux [closed]
I'd like a snappy GUI-based (I insist since people still want to propose console-based) application that can show me running processes and allow me to kill them, on Linux. It doesn't need to be as powerful as Window's Process Explorer or even Win7's Task Manager. Is there something lightweight and functional?
I'd appreciate a recommendation.
Solution 1:
Look at htop. It's light and it'll do what you want. Yes, it does launch in a console, but you can interact with it using the mouse, it's colored, it's live/animated, you can click on column headers to sort, scroll with the mouse, and anything else you care to try.
Solution 2:
There's Linux Process Explorer, a process management tool which seeks to mimic the functionality of Process Explorer for Windows.
Most GUI distros include a basic process management tool among their default system tool set.
Solution 3:
So here is what I finally found, LXTask.
- Lightweight, simple
- Monitors processes
- Can kill processes
- Real GUI
There is also the GNOME system monitor, which also displays the process commandline. It is much more resource hungry though...
Solution 4:
There is also conky. It is not a process monitor, but system monitor which can show quite a lot of information about your system with quite many different themes. Plus it is light and done specifically for Linux. Additional themes you could download from here.