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Click here to download it.

  • What it is

A "works on whatever I throw this in" solution as a system monitor (SDL 2= works on both wayland and X11. Plus, it doesn't even need a window manager to run -- which is breddy gucci.). It has a pretty rough memory usage (10 times as much compared to btop), but its CPU usage compensates for it.

  • Who is this for

Mainly distro hoppers.

  • Why

Because "it just werks" and is "futureproof"'ish -- might last a couple decades before it gets irrelevant.

  • Dependencies

    Debian/Ubuntu : sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev

    Fedora : sudo dnf install gcc make SDL2-devel

    Arch : sudo pacman -S base-devel sdl2

    Alpine : sudo apk add build-base sdl2-dev

    macOS : brew install sdl2

    FreeBSD : pkg install sdl2 gmake

  • How to compile

After decompressing the tarball and downloading the dependencies,

make -j$(nproc)

Then run with

./notasysmon

That should do it. For more info, check the "README.md" file.

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