Working and tested on Linux, FreeBSD and macOS. Windows support is planned. OpenBSD works with some caveats.
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go get github.com/cjbassi/gotop
Note: Doesn't require Go.
Clone the repo and then run scripts/download.sh to download the correct binary for your system from the releases tab:
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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop /tmp/gotop
/tmp/gotop/scripts/download.sh
Then move gotop into your $PATH somewhere.
Install gotop, gotop-bin, or gotop-git from the AUR.
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pkg install gotop
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brew tap cjbassi/gotop
brew install gotop
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snap install gotop-cjbassi
Note: You may need to enable certain permissions for all of the widgets to work:
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snap connect gotop-cjbassi:hardware-observe
snap connect gotop-cjbassi:mount-observe
snap connect gotop-cjbassi:system-observe
q or <C-c>k and <Up>: upj and <Down: down<C-u>: half page up<C-d>: half page down<C-b>: full page up<C-f>: full page downgg and <Home>: jump to topG and <End>: jump to bottom<Tab>: toggle process groupingdd: kill selected process or group of processesc: CPUm: Memp: PIDh: scale inl: scale out?: toggles keybind help menugotop ships with a few colorschemes which can be set with the -c flag followed by the name of one. You can find all the colorschemes in the colorschemes folder.
To make a custom colorscheme, check out the template for instructions and then use default.json as a starter. Then put the file at ~/.config/gotop/<name>.json and load it with gotop -c <name>. Colorschemes PR's are welcome!
-c, --color=NAME Set a colorscheme.
-m, --minimal Only show CPU, Mem and Process widgets.
-r, --rate=RATE Number of times per second to update CPU and Mem widgets [default: 1].
-V, --version Print version and exit.
-p, --percpu Show each CPU in the CPU widget.
-a, --averagecpu Show average CPU in the CPU widget.
-s, --statusbar Show a statusbar with the time.
-b, --battery Show battery level widget (minimal turns off). preview
-i, --interface=NAME Select network interface [default: all].