Htop: Quick Guide & Customization

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Originally published at: htop: Quick Guide & Customization

htop is an interactive system monitor and a process viewer, process manager, trace tool and more. Sysadmins may opt to use htop when Unix top does not provide enough information about system processes. htop uses a cursor-controlled interface for sending signals to processes. One example where this is helpful is: you don’t have to type…

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What would you say are the most useful columns in htop? I remove everything between PRI and SHI and just add IOPS.

I’ve always wished for custom colors schemes as well, there doesn’t seem to be a way to add them. Have I missed it?

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I second that ^

Having an option to colorize them would be amazing. I have not found an option for it though. I like to keep everything organized on my work and home PC using color codes.

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There is no direct option unfortunately. But I can tell you, where the color-themes are defined.
If you dig through the github page of htop, you will find that the color-schemes are defined in the CRT.c

maybe change a few things there and compile it yourself?

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Thanks for sharing. Welcome to the community.

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