NTop

htop-like system-monitor with Vi-emulation for Windows. Because using Task Manager is not cool enough.

NTop as in Windows NT-op or NukeTop. Whatever you prefer (the latter obviously).

Installation

Chocolatey

$ choco install ntop.portable

Scoop

$ scoop install ntop

Winget

$ winget install gsass1.NTop

Usage

Options

| Option | Meaning | |:---|:---| | -C | Use monochrome color scheme. | | -h | Display help info. | | -p PID, PID... | Show only the given PIDs. | | -n NamePart, NamePart... | Show only processes containing at least one of the name parts. | | -s COLUMN | Sort by this column. | | -u USERNAME | Only display processes belonging to this user. | | -v | Print version. |

Interactive commands

| Key(s) | Purpose | |:---|:---| | Up and Down Arrows, <kbd>PgUp</kbd> and <kbd>PgDown</kbd>, <kbd>j</kbd> and <kbd>k</kbd> | Scroll the process list. | | <kbd>CTRL</kbd> + Left and Right Arrows | Change the process sort column. | | <kbd>g</kbd> | Go to the top of the process list. | | <kbd>G</kbd> | Go to the bottom of the process list. | | <kbd>Space</kbd> | Tag a selected process. | | <kbd>U</kbd> | Untag all tagged processes. | | <kbd>K</kbd> | Kill all tagged processes. | | <kbd>I</kbd> | Invert the sort order. | | <kbd>F</kbd> | Follow process: if the sort order causes the currently selected process to move in the list, make the selection bar follow it. Moving the cursor manually automatically disables this feature. | | <kbd>n</kbd> | Next in search. | | <kbd>N</kbd> | Previous in search. |

Vi commands

| Command(s) | Purpose | |:---|:---| | :exec CMD | Executes the given Windows command. | | :kill PID(s) | Kill all given processes. | | :q, :quit | Quit NTop. | | /PATTERN, :search PATTERN | Do a search. | | :sort COLUMN | Sort the process list after the given column. | | :tree | View process tree. |

Configuration

The color scheme can be customized through the ntop.conf file. Follow link for example.

Building

Use CMake or use the build.bat file. Only tested with Visual Studio 2017.

$ cmake . # For enabling Unicode support: cmake -DENABLE_UNICODE=ON .

TODO

• ~~Figure out buggy resizing.~~
• ~~View process tree.~~
• ~~Searching.~~
• Filtering.
• All of htop's command line options.
• At least the most important interactive commands (e.g. ~~following processes~~).