Filteringīelow are a few useful ways to filter processes: Also, you can use the mouse to select processes or menu items.
One great feature is that you can scroll horizontally to the right to view the entire command line of every process. $ sudo apt-get install automake libtool libncurses5-dev Note that you might have to install automake, libtool as well as libncurses5-dev, since htop is an ncurses application. My Ubuntu 14.4 system still uses htop 1.0.2-3 and several bugs have been fixed in 1.0.3 so let’s use the latest version. Htop may not be installed on your system by default so you can install it with apt:Īlternatively, you can download and build the 1.0.3 version from the htop Github repo. Getting Started with Htop Install with Apt… Among other features it provides full horizontal and vertical scrolling, searching and filtering. In the words of Htop’s author Hisham Muhammad, it aims to be a better alternative to the top program. In this short blog I will introduce you to a useful tool called Htop, a process viewer for Linux, which is also available for Mac.
