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The ktreeps program is designed to provide an easy and natural way to view and interact with the programs running on your computer system. It also provides a simple way to determine if any other users are running programs and what they are. This includes the normal background programs run by the "root" user as well as other scheduled tasks started by the the system via cron(1).
Each runing program, or process, is connected into a tree diagram which shows the invocation hierarchy, i.e. which process started which. Also each process is color coded to highlight various kinds of information. Finally processes may be decorated with activity indicators and/or leader bars to show active or important processes.
Details about each process may be displayed, such as the amount of memory used, or the amount of CPU time taken by the process. Processes are displayed as a rectangle and contain one of more fields of information. By default the process name is displayed, but any number of important process variables may be displayed.
Each process in the tree is color coded, the default is by effective user id. This allows one to quickly see which processes are executing as other users and/or executing with special privileges. Other color coding includes:
The program shows the logged in users processes by default, but but can easily be changed to view all of the processes or any combination of groups or users.
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