• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    I made the swich a year or two ago. It is much better I find. I leave it running in a tmux session on my server . with btop on one pane and switch to another with a split view to do work. It allows me to take a quick glance at any time while not taking the focus from what I was working on.

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      Don’t understand why someone should downvote you, take my upvote instead

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        Might be missclick. Some people have fat fingers.

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            So does mine (Voyager), and the misswipes is why I disabled it, which thankfully Voyagers allows to be configurable.

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              The latest Voyager also allows you to customize when the long swipe trigger point is now! Settings -> Gestures -> Long Swipe Trigger Point

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          I saw him with “-1” so actually 2 people not just one person have misclicked according to your theory. Hmmm i don’t know, but i hope it’s true, better then the alternative

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        Lol no idea, some people just want to watch the world burn I suppose. Thanks kind stranger. Wishing you and yours the best.

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    Ooh, it looks even better than gtop.

    Edit: Why does the menu look like this?

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      hollywood is an installable app which when run takes over your machine with a fullscreen terminal and multiple panels with lots of dyanamic data to look like a hacking scene from a Hollywood film. :)

      You can exit it with Ctrl+C

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        Thank you for this, I installed it yesterday and it brought me immeasurable joy for a few minutes :D

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      11 months ago

      I use btop, iotop, jnettop, and radeontop. I rarely need any individual piece of information any of them but they make for an incredible spread of blinkenlights.

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        You can use nvtop for monitoring your GPU, not as detailed as radeontop though but looks good

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          For some weird reason nvtop doesn’t recognise my server’s gpu, but radeontop does

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    Pro tip: configure a font that doesn’t show open circles for unused braille characters to have a higher priority than your current font to get better-looking graphs.

    On my system, braille characters are provided by DejaVu Serif, and it was as easy as just installing the font.

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    I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop

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        My laptop went bonkers trying to run it, maybe I have something misconfigured somewhere. I wanted to like it because it looks great, but I couldn’t because it was seemingly too resource intensive.

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          i see, that’s a bit of a shame because i enjoy it a lot.

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            Somebody mentioned I may have been running bpytop, so maybe this whole thing is my bad. I honestly can’t remember what I ran now - I thought it was btop

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      yeah you need a decently fast hw accelerated terminal for it
      for example, the gnome terminal is pretty slow; if you’re using it, try running it in alacrity or kitty and see if that improves performance.

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        I’ll have to check it out. I’ve seen kitty mentioned a few times but I’m an oldschool xterm kinda guy lol

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        Oh, you might actually be right there… I’m not sure now I didn’t realize there were alternatives.

        I remember trying it a while back when I found a list of fancy looking terminal apps. It was fancy, but it came at the cost of performance.

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      I do as well. I really appreciate the information density, key bindings, and optional web UI. Although I found if I leave glance is running for a prolonged amount of time, it has a tendency to crash from some python issue I haven’t dissected yet, as it takes so much time to reproduce.

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        It’s written in Python.

        EDIT: My original comment refers to going to Bpytop from just plain top. I believe btop is a C++ rewrite of bpytop.

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      Open btop in the terminal, then (note the terminal window must not be in fullscreen) right click with the mouse on the top bar of the terminal window and select “Always on top”.

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    Nice, I’ve tried gtop and atop before and they were pretty nice, but I usually fall back to htop because old habits die hard. I’ll give this a go!

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    I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while

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    btop doesn’t update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.