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author | Daniel Lange <DLange@git.local> | 2016-04-11 13:00:33 +0200 |
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committer | Daniel Lange <DLange@git.local> | 2016-04-11 13:00:33 +0200 |
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@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ - htop -by Hisham Muhammad <loderunner@users.sourceforge.net> +==== + +by Hisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org> + +May, 2004 - January, 2014 -May, 2004 - December, 2010 +Note +---- + +![Alert](http://i.imgur.com/ugIqB9s.png) **Mac users, [click here](https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/554-mac-os-x-support-in-the-official-htop-1-x-tree)!** The htop version you are using is a 5-year old fork -- help bring htop 1.x to the Mac! Introduction -~~~~~~~~~~~~ +------------ This is htop, an interactive process viewer. It requires ncurses. It is tested with Linux 2.6, @@ -23,28 +29,32 @@ and is reasonably complete, but there is still room for improvement. Read the TODO file to see what's known to be missing. Comparison between 'htop' and 'top' -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - * In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally - to see all processes and full command lines. - * In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned - key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape - sequences are triggered by accident). - * 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while - before displaying anything). - * In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to - kill a process, in 'top' you do. - * In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or - the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do. - * In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once. - * 'top' is older, hence, more tested. +----------------------------------- + +* In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally + to see all processes and full command lines. +* In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned + key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape + sequences are triggered by accident). +* 'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while + before displaying anything). +* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to + kill a process, in 'top' you do. +* In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or + the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do. +* In 'htop' you can kill multiple processes at once. +* 'top' is older, hence, more tested. Compilation instructions -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +------------------------ This program is distributed as a standard autotools-based package. See the INSTALL file for detailed instructions, but you are -probably used to the common "configure/make/make install" routine. +probably used to the common `./configure`/`make`/`make install` routine. + +When fetching the code from the development repository, you need +to run the `./autogen.sh` script, which in turn requires autotools +to be installed. See the manual page (man htop) or the on-line help ('F1' or 'h' inside htop) for a list of supported key commands. |