Useful tools for everybody, was Re: Plasmoids and Power Consumption

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:07:01 +0200, Myriam Schweingruber posted:

> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 18:40, Ulrich Grün <ulrich.gruen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 2009/4/16 Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at ubuntu.com>:
>>> There is another tool for the command line I use all the time: htop It
>>> is a very nice way to monitor the system on the command line, I let it
>>> run in a tab of konsole and have it handy when I need to check
>>> something. The biggest strength: the filtering possibilities so I can
>>> monitor by CPU or memory usage or whatever else I need to know.
>>>
>>> IMHO, htop should replace top as the standard monitoring tool in Linux,
>>> it is so much more usable and shows the individual cores, memory and
>>> swap usage work with a graphical bar.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards, Myriam.
>>
>> Also very nice and X is 'qps' (qps.kldp.net). When I have to kill some
>> process (Amarok, most of the time),
> 
> OT: I wonder why and which version... I run 2.1-SVN here and have to kill
> it only very rarely.
> /OT
> 
>> I type the first letter of that process, after which only that process
>> is shown. Selecting the process with the cursor and pressing <del>,
>> terminates it. 'qps' has a lot of features you can only dream of ... ;-)
> 
> Hm, you do know that a simple 'killall -9 amarok' does the trick too? No
> need for a graphical app IMHO. Also, what do you do if you need such an
> app outside an X environment? htop also works in a terminal session and
> really is one of the most valuable apps I know for system information.
> 
> Another possibility which is built in KDE, is the 'Xkill' feature:
> Ctrl+Alt+Esc gives you a 'X' which you place on the title bar of the app
> you want to kill, then simply click and the work is done.
> 
> 
> Regards, Myriam
> 

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