Post AsF4HO7IWmYMeqlYDA by richlv@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AsF4HO7IWmYMeqlYDA by richlv@mastodon.social
       2025-03-20T08:57:25Z
       
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       WHEN DID TOP GET THE MEMORY BARSSeriously, I only discovered this by mis-hitting shift-m. And there are two visual styles, too.#Linux #CLI
       
 (DIR) Post #AsF4HP5utP2hgr7xhI by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2025-03-20T09:44:49.333227Z
       
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       @richlv top --versiontop from procps-ng 4.0.4If only he knew (fediblock is ensuring he will never know).
       
 (DIR) Post #AsF4Wtp8vJdPL7fdTM by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2025-03-20T09:36:47Z
       
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       @richlv over 10 years ago they got frustrated with people complaining that top is old and ugly compared to htop, so they changed the default config to something fancy, with red memory/cpu bars and all, to show that you can have all those nice features if you enable them in the config.A few years later they git frustrated with people using those new defaults while still ignoring the config, so they reverted the defaults back to the old style.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsF4X1ToSVKH5HkiKu by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2025-03-20T09:38:15Z
       
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       @richlv ofc to this day nobody knows how to write their own config for top
       
 (DIR) Post #AsF519LvkgxCBmQnOS by rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link
       2025-03-20T09:52:31Z
       
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       @richlv@mastodon.social @wolf480pl@mstdn.io You don't have to, just toggle things and change things at runtime however you want (press 'h' for help, to find what's available), then press Shift+w, and top will write a config file for you in the correct path, thus saving your settings.