otter2
June 20, 2026, 3:34am
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It caught my eye while I was browsing prs for the admin client. An attempt to have an alternative to the beloved but oh-so-information-packed and w i d e xentop. It have been worked on by Ben for more than a year at this point, and still going.
main ← ben-grande:qvm-top
opened 10:57AM - 28 Jan 25 UTC
Add top-like monitoring tool
Inspiration and code from qui-domains and visual… s from xentop.
- Colors entries according to state
- Footer with clock to show last time the screen was refreshed
- Allows scrolling domain list when it is longer than the screen height,
with a less-type hint indicating how many lines to scroll
- To scroll, readline style (Emacs) navigation is supported, with some
Vi keys also supported
- Inexpensive calls using "admin.vm.Stats"
Requires: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin/pull/826
Requires: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin/pull/827
Breaking change on a commit, which requires new client versions:
- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-manager/pull/315
Here’s how it could look:
Compared to xentop:
What are your thoughts on this? I think it’s cool and they should use tree mode for displaying stubdomains.