GNOME-SYSTEM-MONITOR(1)

📦 version 51~beta, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

👑 GNOME-SYSTEM-MONITOR — bestie edition 💅

okay so this one lives in the General Commands Manual section of your man pages, and it's literally called gnome-system-monitor, no cap. here's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

gnome-system-monitor — view and control processes ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gnome-system-monitor [-s,--simple]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. short king. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so gnome-system-monitor lets you view and control the processes running on your system, bestie. like, actually control them. you can dive into detailed memory maps, send signals, and terminate the processes. it's giving main character energy over your whole process table fr fr. 😭

and on top of that? gnome-system-monitor also gives you an overall view of the resource usage on your system, including memory and CPU allocation. so you always know what's eating your RAM at 3am. 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so real talk: this program accepts all the standard GNOME and GTK+ options, and those follow the usual GNU command line syntax — long options start with two dashes (-). iconic. 💅

and in addition to all those standard GNOME options, gnome-system-monitor accepts this one:

  • -s, --simple — shows a simple dialog to end processes and log out. lowkey handy when you just wanna dip. 🚪✨

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

gnome-system-monitor was written by Kevin Vandersloot. 🎀

this manual page was written by Colin Walters walters@debian.org for the Debian system — but it may be used by others too, sharing is caring. 🫶

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation — with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. slay, legally. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! it came to you from the GNOME-SYSTEM-MONITOR(1) manual, General Commands Manual division, and yeah the footer literally just says GNOME-SYSTEM-MONITOR(1) again because the manpage wanted to remind you of its own name one last time. 💀 periodt. 🌈⭐
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