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What makes Btop++ interesting
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- Full mouse support, with clicks and scrolling
- Function for showing detailed stats for selected process.
- Fast, easy to use user interface.
- Ability to filter processes.
- Shows IO activity and speeds for disks.
Installation
Terminate a processbtop --force-utf
btop
Here’s what you should do for changing the theme. Get the .theme files. For Catppuccin, go to their release page and grab the latest themes.tar.gz file.sudo dnf install btop
This will print the help window with necessary keys and their functions.It’s FOSS turns 13! 13 years of helping people use Linux ❤️While you are in Btop, press the down or up arrow key to move through the list of processes. When you are above a process you want to terminate, press the t key on your keyboard.Here are a few things that make btop++ a better choice than the top command:
Explore btop++ interface
In Ubuntu 22.04 and above, you can use the following command to install it:
Btop++ default
Btop++ is available in the official repositories of most Linux distributions.
In this section, we will take a look at a couple of important usage of Btop as a system monitor and process manager.
~/.config/btop/btop.conf and change the color_theme = "Default" line to:color_theme = "catppuccin_macchiato"
You’ll may come across some themes that are specifically created for btop++. For example, I am a fan of Catppuccin theme these days and I was glad to see a btop theme in this color palette.
Terminate a process
To keep things simpler, Btop++ is also referred to as Btop at times.
sudo pacman -Syu btop
🪛 Troubleshooting tip: No UTF-8 locale detected
The best way to get help in btop is by using its TUI menu. While running btop, press the ESC key.
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You can press these keys on the keyboard to access the related settings. For example, pressing the m key in the above screenshot will bring a menu screen.It is a C++ variant of the popular bashtop from the same developer. In fact, the developer states that Btop++ is a continuation of bashtop and bpytop.
sudo apt install btop
ERROR: No UTF-8 locale detected!
Use --force-utf argument to force start if you're sure your terminal can handle it.
While running it, you can see that several letters appearing in the title portions of the interface appear in a different color.Btop++ is a similar Linux system monitoring tool that shows usage statistics for processor, memory, disk, network, and processes.
Changing the theme
For many Linux users, htop is the better top. However, Btop++ is a pretty nice system monitor too. If you do not like to use GUI resource monitors, and want something fast, this is a nice option to have. Alternatively, you may also explore glances.
If you want to send a different signal to a process, Btop can do that as well. Hover over a process and press the s key on your keyboard.The omnipresent top command is often the first tool that comes to mind for system resource monitoring in the Linux command line.Extract it and you’ll see four variants of the theme. Either copy all of them or the one of your choice (you can see what it looks like on the GitHub repo) to ~/.config/btop/themes folder.Navigate through the settings using the arrow keys and highlighted characters. The above video shows some settings changes using this btop++ menu.
Getting help
You can find this autogenerated config file at ~/.config/btop/btop.conf.You can press the enter key on top of a process to open it in a separate section. This will then give more insight about that process like status, CPU, elapsed time, etc.
All options in btop++ are configurable via the TUI menu. Still, btop++ provides a text-based configuration file as well.
Wrapping Up
Here, hover over Options and press enter. This will bring up the GUI Settings dialog for btop++.
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Running btop++
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