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Cake day: May 31st, 2020
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Underappreciated `top`English
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    14 days ago

    Yeah, I especially don’t understand it here, because it’s a graphical tool. You don’t have to keep backwards compatibility.

    Even if you’re worried about people depending on the format that’s being piped, you could keep only the piped format stable. We have the technology.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Underappreciated `top`English
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    14 days ago

    Yeah, I would often just grab htop because I had no idea how to read the CPU usage out of top.
    For example, for me it says:

    %Cpu(s):  0,4 us,  0,4 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,8 id,  0,0 wa,  0,3 hi,  0,0 si,  0,0 st

    Now that I look at it, I can guess that us and sy are supposed to be user and system time. And I guess id is supposed to be idle.
    I have no guess what the other numbers might be, though. And well, I would often like to see the CPU usage per core.
    Now I know that I can just press 1t and get effectively the same view as in htop.

    I might learn top’s filtering workflow, too. But so far, I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep <process-name> and then kill <pid>, which isn’t particularly more cumbersome, so will see…

  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•my reason why you should use KDE+Krohnkite instead of WMsEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I can’t really sell this as a solution, as it requires quite a lot more involvement than a simple configuration file should, but I use Nix Home Manager with Plasma Manager for this.

    This is part of the tooling you’d use on NixOS, but you can use it on other distros, too, and it generally works fine (although I’m not sure, if the current version of Plasma Manager still supports Plasma 5, in case you’re still on a distro with that).

    Basically, it allows you to define e.g. keyboard shortcuts like this:

        shortcuts = {
      ksmserver = {
        "Lock Session" = [
          "Screensaver"
          "Meta+Ctrl+Alt+L"
        ];
      };

      kwin = {
        "Expose" = "Meta+,";
        "Switch Window Down" = "Meta+J";
        "Switch Window Left" = "Meta+H";
        "Switch Window Right" = "Meta+L";
        "Switch Window Up" = "Meta+K";
      };
    };

    It then fucks up the formatting, so that it looks like KDE expects, and throws it into ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc.
    (KDE does actually have a text-based config, it’s just borderline unusable.)

    Well, and you can do this with lots of other Plasma options, too. Here’s their official example: https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager/blob/trunk/examples/home.nix