NTop

NTop

htop-like system-monitor with Vi-emulation for Windows. Because using Task Manager is not cool enough.

NTop as in Windows NT-op or NukeTop. Whatever you prefer (the latter obviously).

Installation

Chocolatey

$ choco install ntop.portable

Scoop

$ scoop install ntop

Winget

$ winget install gsass1.NTop

Usage

Options

Option	Meaning
-C	Use monochrome color scheme.
-h	Display help info.
-p PID, PID…	Show only the given PIDs.
-n NamePart, NamePart…	Show only processes containing at least one of the name parts.
-s COLUMN	Sort by this column.
-u USERNAME	Only display processes belonging to this user.
-v	Print version.

Interactive commands

Key(s)	Purpose
Up and Down Arrows, PgUp and PgDown, j and k	Scroll the process list.
CTRL + Left and Right Arrows	Change the process sort column.
g	Go to the top of the process list.
G	Go to the bottom of the process list.
Space	Tag a selected process.
U	Untag all tagged processes.
K	Kill all tagged processes.
I	Invert the sort order.
F	Follow process: if the sort order causes the currently selected process to move in the list, make the selection bar follow it. Moving the cursor manually automatically disables this feature.
n	Next in search.
N	Previous in search.

Vi commands

Command(s)	Purpose
:exec CMD	Executes the given Windows command.
:kill PID(s)	Kill all given processes.
:q, :quit	Quit NTop.
/PATTERN, :search PATTERN	Do a search.
:sort COLUMN	Sort the process list after the given column.
:tree	View process tree.

Configuration

The color scheme can be customized through the ntop.conf file. Follow link for example.

Building

Use CMake or use the build.bat file. Only tested with Visual Studio 2017.

$ cmake . # For enabling Unicode support: cmake -DENABLE_UNICODE=ON .

TODO

• Figure out buggy resizing.
• View process tree.
• Searching.
• Filtering.
• All of htop’s command line options.
• At least the most important interactive commands (e.g. following processes).