priestd09 / ptop

An awesome task manager written in python. :computer:

ptop

An awesome task manager written in python. A more awesome top like thing in your terminal !

Inspired by vtop

Some Screenshots

Installation

ptop is compaible with both Python2.x and Python3.x and is tested on Linux and MaxOSx (should be invoked as root) environments.

$ pip install ptop

or

$  git clone https://github.com/darxtrix/ptop
$ cd ptop/
$ pip install -r requirements.txt # install requirements
$ sudo python setup.py install

Upgrading ptop

The latest version is 1.0. Older versions of ptop can be updated using:

$ pip install --upgrade ptop

Usage

$ ptop

$ ptop -t <theme>   # custom theme

$ ptop -csrt 500    # custom refresh time for cpu stats 

$ ptop -h           # help

Features

• Killing a process ✔️
• Showing system ports and files used by a process ✔️
• Network Monitor ✔️
• Process search ✔️
• Sorting on the basis of process lifetime and memory used ✔️
• Responsiveness with terminal ✔️
• Custom refresh times for different stats like memory info, process info etc ✔️
• Rolling version updates ✔️

For suggesting new features please add to this issue

Supported themes

• colorful
• elegant
• simple
• dark
• light

Developing ptop

$ git clone https://github.com/darxtrix/ptop
$ cd ptop   
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python setup.py develop

Note : ptop will create a log file called .ptop.log in the home directory of the user.

Contributions Guide

• Pull requests are awesome and always welcome. Please use the issue tracker to report any bugs.
• For starters, we have filtered some newbie issues.
• Feel free to shoot your queries at the ptop gitter channel.

Main modules :

• ptop.core : Defines a basic Plugin class that other plugins in the ptop.plugins inherit.
• ptop.interfaces : The interface to the ptop built using npyscreen.
• ptop.plugins : This module contains all the plugin sensors supported i.e Disk Sensor,Memory Sensor,Process Sensor, etc. ( Any new plugin should be added here).
• ptop.statistics : Generate continuous statistics using background thread jobs by locating plugins in the plugins directory.
• ptop.utils : Custom thread classes.

Main Dependencies

• npyscreen
• psutil
• drawille

Contributors

• vinusankars
• Deepak Narayanan
• Smeet Vora
• Santiago Castro
• Yu-Jie Lin

For details please check Contributors.md

License

MIT © Ankush Sharma