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Task Manager
Future Goals
Use gksu to restart the application as rootA settings dialog- A properties dialog to inspect processes with information like
lsof
- Running debugging tools like gdb/nemiver or strace
- Switch between liststore and treestore
- Add optional monitors for network/disk io/etc
- Retrieve application icon/name without windows/without libwnck
- Allow custom user-settable signals
Floating Ideas
- API changes:
- Replace
memory_buffer
andmemory_cache
withmemory_inactive
- New function pid_is_running() to show running tasks with a yellow background
- New function pid_is_zombi() to show tasks gray on black
- Add execution start time
- Update the status icon with a graph
- Application actions “Bring to front” and so on with an optional dialog for n_window > 1
- Display a skull icon in front of uninterruptible disk sleep tasks (in casual word daemonized)
- Show CPU usage text “insensitive” when 0% – makes it easier to distinguish if yes or no a process is using CPU cycles
- When terminating a task, unselect the row
Options
Toolbar style with label/icon/bothShow/hide application iconsPrompt for terminating tasksDraw monitors without borders (gtk_paint_box)
User Suggestions
Add a text entry to filter tasks- It is already possible to type in the tree view and type up/down arrows to jump from one task to another, which is more than enough
- Draw multicore and Mem/Swap with several lines on the same graph (cf uber-graph)