Revision as of 06:49, 10 January 2010

Intro

System Activity is akin to the Microsoft Window's Task Manager, Apple's Mac OS X's Activity Monitor and Gnome's System Monitor. It pops up when you press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Esc or from the spanner (wrench) to the left in a KRunner (Alt-F2) window.

It shows a list of currently running processes, along with their CPU usage, Memory usage, and various other pieces of information.

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+System Activity is akin to the Microsoft Window's Task Manager, Apple's Mac OS X's Activity Monitor and Gnome's System Monitor.  It pops up when you press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Esc  or from the spanner (wrench) to the left in a [[KRunner]] (Alt-F2) window.
+It shows a list of currently running processes, along with their CPU usage, Memory usage, and various other pieces of information.
+[[File:SystemActivity.png]]
-Although this is one of the [[KSysGuard]] modules, it is usefully available on demand, as a stand-alone.  In KDE SC 4.3, this can only be accessed by the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Esc or from the spanner (wrench) to the left in a [[KRunner]] (Alt-F2) window.  A menu entry may follow.
-This is particularly useful when you have a misbehaving window, that refuses to close by normal methods.  Simply highlight the process, then hit the Kill button.
-You can, of course, choose between seeing All Processes, User-owned Processes, System Processes and Programmes Only.  If you select All Processes, Tree, you can see whether anything else might be affected by killing your problem window.
 [[Category:System]]