Barometer
Barometer is the system monitor. Open it with Ctrl+Shift+Esc, or from the taskbar’s right-click menu.
Apps and processes
Section titled “Apps and processes”- Apps are grouped the way the desktop started them, with their processor, memory, disk and graphics use. Expand an app to see its processes.
- End, Force quit, pause, resume and change the priority of apps and processes. Processes of other users and of the system ask for your password first. When an app isn’t closing, Barometer offers to wait or force it.
- The process table can be sorted and searched, and its columns chosen from the header’s right-click menu.
- Process details show the command line, working folder, user, parent, threads, open files, control group and a breakdown of memory.
Performance
Section titled “Performance”Live graphs for the processor, memory, each graphics card, drive and network connection, and the battery. NVIDIA graphics are read through NVIDIA’s driver; AMD and Intel graphics where the kernel reports them.
In its preferences you can change how often it updates and how much history the graphs keep, and choose Celsius or Fahrenheit, bits or bytes for network speed, and per-core or whole-processor use.
Keyboard shortcuts
Section titled “Keyboard shortcuts”| Shortcut | Does |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+F | Search apps or processes |
| Right / Left | Show or hide an app’s processes |
| Enter | Show an app’s processes, or a process’s details |
| Delete | End the selected app or process |
| Shift+Delete | Force quit |