The xfce4-taskmanager component is an easy to use graphical task manager.
I have reworked the app to add the following new features:
The app now includes a network graph that allows you to visualize the global system traffic (rx, tx and error) in real-time.
I have added PCAP functionality to sniff the network traffic for each port. This is done via inode mapping, which also adds 3 new columns to the displayed process list:
- Number of incoming packets
- Number of outgoing packets
- Number of used sockets by the application
Here is a screenshot of the updated app:
Screenshot
In order for the PCAP sniffing functionality to work, you need to set the following capabilities on the xfce4-taskmanager binary:
sudo setcap "cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw,cap_dac_read_search,cap_sys_ptrace+pe" ./src/xfce4-taskmanager
This grants the necessary permissions for the application to access network interfaces and system resources.
Xfce4-taskmanager documentation
See NEWS for details on changes and fixes made in the current release.
Xfce4-taskmanager archive or Xfce4-taskmanager tags
From source code repository:
% cd xfce4-taskmanager
% ./autogen.sh
% make
% make install
From release tarball:
% tar xf xfce4-taskmanager-<version>.tar.bz2
% cd xfce4-taskmanager-<version>
% ./configure
% make
% make install
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