I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
I have an old PC running a couple of VMs and it has an old 19" display and keyboard for emergencies. It's text only (80x25, maybe), no Wayland. What cool thing can I put on the display? Are there any text based graphs or charts?
18 Comments
He4eT@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Try the btop, it's fancy
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Of the tops out there, btop is my favorite followed by glances. They are all useful, I just like the way btop presents the data
DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 1y
Something cool & useful? htop. Something cool but useless? cmatrix
There are also various text-based screensavers like the windows pipes and such, but I don't have those project names handy.
r0ertel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I had plain old
topand it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.I'll also have to check out cmatrix.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Use
btop, it's even betterlunachocken@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
My uni lecturer me mentioned btop to me. Haven't looked back
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
I discovered it a couple weeks ago. Love it.
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Wow! Just had a flashback to the screensaver era. If you're ever bored, there is some neat history behind the Flying Toasters screensaver.
DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
AfterDark was awesome
30p87@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y
For basic stats, probably just htop. But you can set any of those status viewers as the shell of a custom user, and configure it to login into that user automatically for the physical tty1 (so the display)
TunaLobster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
You could step up a level and use btop! More numbers!
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 8 pts · 1y
asciiquarium?
arschflugkoerper@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
I love asciiquarium
Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y
Maybe htop? It's pretty configurable and has decent bars for various resources.
Also if your reason for choosing pure TUI is just resource usage (and not the aesthetics of it / cool feeling / whatever else), then you could maybe look into running something like Sway or Xorg+i3 - those are very lightweight, well suited for single window usage, and open up a lot of possibilities for lightweight GUI apps.
r0ertel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It's a VGA connection and, yes, my primary concern is resource usage. I'm running 2-3 VMs on it so that I can easily migrate the VM around.
Bitflip@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
All of these suggestions, and split them up in tmux panes. ntop and glances are neat too!
r0ertel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
This is an excellent idea!
vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
turn that monitor off and save power?