2016-02-08 02:36:16 +00:00
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Introduction
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Wmtop maintains a view of the 3 top CPU (or memory) consuming
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processes displaying the amount of CPU used as a horizontal bar.
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Very useful for spotting those rogue Netscape processes!
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To compile:
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2016-02-08 02:36:26 +00:00
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Type 'autoreconf -fvi', './configure', and 'make'.
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(Note that in previous versions, you had to indicate 'make linux' or 'make
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freebsd' -- this is now taken care of by ./configure.)
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2016-02-08 02:36:16 +00:00
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To install:
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If you are superuser type 'make install'
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Instructions
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Invoke wmtop using the command 'wmtop'
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Use -display and -geometry options in the usual way.
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Use the command line option '-s <time in milliseconds>' to control the
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frequency of sampling of the processes and '-r <time in milliseconds>' to
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control how often the display is updated.
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Use -U to watch only your own processes rather than all of them. While
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running, a middle mouse click changes between the display of user processes
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and all processes.
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Use -x <regexp> to exclude processes whose name matches a given pattern
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from the list.
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Use -m to display physical memory usage instead of CPU, but is currently
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only supported under Linux. While running, a left mouse click changes
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between cpu and memory display.
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Use -c 'command' to have a command executed when you right click on wmtop.
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For example you could launch a window with the real 'top' command for a closer
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look at a rogue process.
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Use -a <1..X> to choose a theme for wmtop.
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Example
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wmtop -U -x '^wm' -c "xterm -e top"
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Means list my own processes that are not dockapps. Launch top on a right
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click.
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Caveats
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As far as I know this only works under Linux or FreeBSD with a
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/proc filesystem. Tested by me under Linux 2.2.5 and FreeBSD 3.2
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(PAO) and FreeBSD 4.0 on a Sony Vaio 505TX. Reportedly works also
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on other platforms including various combnations of Linux and
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FreeBSD on Intel and Alpha CPU machines. See TODO file for information
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about porting progress.
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Credits
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I have liberally borrowed code from wmsysmon by Dave Clark. Thanks!
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Thanks to Cyrille Mars (mailto:cmars@club-internet.fr) for some
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new pixmaps and beta testing.
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Thanks to Thomas C Sobczyns for beta testing (mailto:tcs@mit.edu).
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Thanks to Brian Servis (mailto:servis@purdue.edu) for improvements to the
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Makefile (that I have since ruined...).
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Thanks to Alan Swanson (mailto:swanson@uklinux.net) for some bugfixes and
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improvements.
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