![]() I like it “as-is”, more of less as it shows: You can adjust the default presentation, layout, widgets, colour scheme, etc either by passing a few arguments to the command or by editing/creating a configuration file. Gotop has a ton of customisation potential. The default dashboard loaded by running gotop is well proportioned (and it adapts to smaller widths better than similar tools) and displays the most important stats you’d want to see when loading it up.īut if you want to go advanced you can. I love that its very functional from the off. The CLI app in question is gotop It’s a “terminal based graphical activity monitor, inspired by gtop and vtop, this time written in Go“, to quote its GitHub page. It’s sort of like the midway point between the raw simplicity provided by the likes of top and htop and the visual flair™ put forward by btop++ (or any of its incarnations, e.g., bashtop, bpytop, etc). It’s definitely one of those “too cool to not shoehorn into a post” apps. I only discovered it recently - spying on Alan Pope has many advantages □ - but the second I saw it, I was smitten. So I want(ed an excuse) to highlight another command line system monitor that I dig using. Thing is this: while all of those bells and whistles are music to my ears they are a bit ‘too much’ for other. ![]() ![]() It’s flashy, it’s fast, it’s interactive, you can customise the appearance, disable sections, filter processes speedily, and so on. ![]() I included it in my list of the best command line tools because I genuinely think it’s one of the best command line tools available. I’m a ‘fessed up fan of btop, a colossally cool looking and comprehensive system monitoring utility accessed from the command line. ![]()
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