Process Monitor

A bottom-style process monitor for Noctalia: live CPU/RAM/swap bars and a sortable, searchable process table with a per-process kill action, all in a panel. Great for spotting a runaway process or a zombie and killing it without opening a terminal.

Plugin

Field	Value
ID	weinguyen/procmon
Entries	Bar widget: widget; panel: panel; service: service

Requirements

Install ps, kill, head, grep and cat on PATH (all are present on virtually every Linux distribution).

Usage

Add the Process Monitor widget to a bar. It shows the current CPU and RAM usage (plus the process count). Click the widget to toggle the process panel:

noctalia msg panel-toggle weinguyen/procmon:panel

The panel shows CPU, RAM and swap bars with the 1/5/15-minute load averages, then a process table. Sort by the column dropdown (PID, CPU%, MEM%, RSS, COMMAND) and flip asc/desc with the arrow button. Type in the filter box to match a process by name, user or PID. Click the ✕ button on a row to run the configured kill command against that PID (default kill -TERM). Zombie processes are tinted with the error color so they stand out. The table refreshes on the interval set in the refresh_interval setting. The panel re-renders automatically as new samples arrive, so the view stays live while it is open.

Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
refresh_interval	int	1000	Process resample interval in milliseconds. (default 1000)
sort_by	select	cpu	Initial sort column when the panel opens (cpu, mem, pid, cmd).
kill_command	string	kill -TERM	Command run against a selected PID; the PID is appended. Empty falls back to kill -TERM.
show_count	bool	true	Bar widget also shows the total process count.

Notes

• Spawns processes. A background service runs ps every 2nd refresh interval (the process table changes slowly) and reads /proc stats every interval; runAsync runs the configured kill_command when a row's ✕ is clicked. There is no confirmation dialog, so check the PID before clicking.

• The bar widget only renders data the service publishes; it never runs commands. The panel runs the configured kill_command when a row's ✕ is clicked.

• Requires plugin_api = 13. CPU%, RAM%, swap and the 1/5/15-minute load averages are sampled from /proc (/proc/stat, /proc/meminfo, /proc/loadavg) by the service, so they work with no separate system-monitor dependency.