ptop

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

Inspired by vtop

Some Screenshots

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

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

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

$ pip install --upgrade ptop

$ ptop

$ ptop -t <theme>   # custom theme

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

$ ptop -h           # help

For suggesting new features please add to this issue

$ 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.

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.

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.

For details please check Contributors.md