Awesome
NTop
htop-like system-monitor with Vi-emulation for Windows. Because using Task Manager is not cool enough.
NTop as in Windows NT-op or NukeTop. Whatever you prefer (the latter obviously).
Installation
Chocolatey
$ choco install ntop.portable
Scoop
$ scoop install ntop
Winget
$ winget install gsass1.NTop
Usage
Options
Option | Meaning |
---|---|
-C | Use monochrome color scheme. |
-h | Display help info. |
-p PID, PID... | Show only the given PIDs. |
-n NamePart, NamePart... | Show only processes containing at least one of the name parts. |
-s COLUMN | Sort by this column. |
-u USERNAME | Only display processes belonging to this user. |
-v | Print version. |
Interactive commands
Key(s) | Purpose |
---|---|
Up and Down Arrows, <kbd>PgUp</kbd> and <kbd>PgDown</kbd>, <kbd>j</kbd> and <kbd>k</kbd> | Scroll the process list. |
<kbd>CTRL</kbd> + Left and Right Arrows | Change the process sort column. |
<kbd>g</kbd> | Go to the top of the process list. |
<kbd>G</kbd> | Go to the bottom of the process list. |
<kbd>Space</kbd> | Tag a selected process. |
<kbd>U</kbd> | Untag all tagged processes. |
<kbd>K</kbd> | Kill all tagged processes. |
<kbd>I</kbd> | Invert the sort order. |
<kbd>F</kbd> | Follow process: if the sort order causes the currently selected process to move in the list, make the selection bar follow it. Moving the cursor manually automatically disables this feature. |
<kbd>n</kbd> | Next in search. |
<kbd>N</kbd> | Previous in search. |
Vi commands
Command(s) | Purpose |
---|---|
:exec CMD | Executes the given Windows command. |
:kill PID(s) | Kill all given processes. |
:q , :quit | Quit NTop. |
/PATTERN , :search PATTERN | Do a search. |
:sort COLUMN | Sort the process list after the given column. |
:tree | View process tree. |
Configuration
The color scheme can be customized through the ntop.conf file. Follow link for example.
Building
Use CMake or use the build.bat file. Only tested with Visual Studio 2017.
$ cmake . # For enabling Unicode support: cmake -DENABLE_UNICODE=ON .
TODO
Figure out buggy resizing.View process tree.Searching.- Filtering.
- All of htop's command line options.
- At least the most important interactive commands (e.g.
following processes).