Disclaimer: This is pre-alpha software and is not intended to be used as a replacement for the KDE Task Manager or any other production-grade task manager. It is still in early development and may be unstable or incomplete. Please use with caution.
A simple Qt application written in C++ designed to display system resource usage and performance metrics, similar to the Windows Task Manager. It is built to work on Linux-based systems and relies on the lscpu and lm_sensors tools to gather system information.
- Display CPU utilization and performance statistics.
- Show memory usage, including RAM and cache (TODO).
- Monitor CPU temperature (requires lm_sensors).
- Simple and clean user interface, built using the Qt 6 framework.
To run this application, ensure the following dependencies are installed:
- Qt 6
- lscpu (for CPU information)
- lm_sensors (for temperature and sensor information)
- polkit
- dmidecode
- CMake 3.31 or higher (for building the project)
- Install required dependencies:
- For Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions:
sudo apt-get install lscpu lm-sensors qt6-qmake qt6-base-dev cmake
- For Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S lscpu lm_sensors qt6-base cmake
- Install
lm_sensorsand run it to detect your sensors:
- If
lm_sensorsis not already configured, you can run the following command to configure it:
sudo sensors-detect
- Follow the prompts and say "yes" to allow the tool to detect your sensors.
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Clone the repository and build the project
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Create a build directory and configure the project using CMake:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
- Build the project using CMake:
cmake --build .
- Run the application:
./TaskManager
- The application uses the
lscpucommand to gather CPU architecture and performance data, such as the number of cores, CPU frequency, and cache sizes. - Temperature readings are obtained using
lm_sensors. These readings are then displayed in the application's GUI. - Cache size and memory utilization information is updated dynamically every second.
- Linux-only support: This application is currently designed to work only on Linux-based systems. There are no plans to change this.
- The program relies on the availability of
lscpuandlm_sensorsfor gathering system data. These tools must be installed and properly configured.
- Process management features (similar to Windows Task Manager).
This project is licensed under the GPLv2 - see the LICENSE file for details.
- The Qt framework for building the cross-platform GUI.
- The
lscpuandlm_sensorstools for providing hardware-related information on Linux.