NO LONGER MAINTAINED. Future development has moved to ytop, a Rust port of gotop. A maintained fork of gotop also exists at https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop.

Another terminal based graphical activity monitor, inspired by gtop and vtop, this time written in Go!

Installation

Working and tested on Linux, FreeBSD and macOS. Windows support is planned. OpenBSD works with some caveats.

Source

go get github.com/cjbassi/gotop

Prebuilt binaries

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:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop /tmp/gotop /tmp/gotop/scripts/download.sh

Then move

gotop

into your

$PATH

somewhere.

Arch Linux

Install

gotop

,

gotop-bin

, or

gotop-git

from the AUR.

FreeBSD

pkg install gotop

Homebrew

brew tap cjbassi/gotop brew install gotop

Snap

snap install gotop-cjbassi

Note: You may need to enable certain permissions for all of the widgets to work:

snap connect gotop-cjbassi:hardware-observe snap connect gotop-cjbassi:mount-observe snap connect gotop-cjbassi:system-observe

Usage

Keybinds

• Quit:

  q

  or

  <c-c></c-c>

• Process navigation

  k

  and

  <up></up>

  : up

  j

  and

  <down>: down</down>

  • <c-u></c-u>

    : half page up

  • <c-d></c-d>

    : half page down

  • <c-b></c-b>

    : full page up

  • <c-f></c-f>

    : full page down

  • gg

    and

    <home></home>

    : jump to top

  • G

    and

    <end></end>

    : jump to bottom

• Process actions:

  <tab></tab>

  : toggle process grouping

  dd

  : kill selected process or group of processes

• Process sorting

  c

  : CPU

  m

  : Mem

  p

  : PID

• CPU and Mem graph scaling:

  h

  : scale in

  l

  : scale out

• ?

  : toggles keybind help menu

Mouse

• click to select process
• mouse wheel to scroll through processes

Colorschemes

gotop 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</name>

and load it with

gotop -c <name></name>

. Colorschemes PR's are welcome!

CLI Options

-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].

Built With

• gizak/termui
  • nsf/termbox
• exrook/drawille-go
• shirou/gopsutil
• goreleaser/nfpm
• distatus/battery

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