In addition, the program offers a freely configurable bar in the upper part of the display. If you want to use the mouse in a virtual terminal, gpm must be installed. If htop is started in a terminal within a desktop environment, the mouse can also be used. Htop can easily be operated with the keyboard without having to type long commands. The program has a ncurses interface, ncurses stands for new curses, it is a free C – program library to a character-based user interface (Text user interface – TUI) independently of the illustrative text terminal or terminal emulator display. Here we see the steps to install it on AlmaLinux, CentOS, 8, Rocky, Oracle, or RHEL.

Compared to the classic top this process manager offers some convenient functions. Now run the htop monitoring tool by executing following command on the terminal.Htop is a lightweight to available for Linux systems to show a dynamic overview of the running processes and the system resources used. # rpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -ihv rpmforge-release*.rf.i686.rpm For RHEL, CentOS & Fedora 64-bit OS # For RHEL 5, CentOS 5 & Fedora # For RHEL, CentOS & Fedora 32-bit OS # For RHEL 5, CentOS 5 & Fedora # To do just install the following RPM for your architecture ( 32bit or 64bit). Let us install Htop on RHEL 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 17,16,15,14,13,12 Linux via the yum package manager, the rpmforge package repository must be installed on your system to retrieve and install. You can scroll vertically to view the full process list, and scroll horizontally to view the full command line of the process. We can interact with mouse those who love to play with mouse. It shows complete list of processes running and easy to use for normal tasks. Htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application for Linux.

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