How can I save the view to sort by CPU usage?

Question

Can I somehow modify htop's default view to display processes sorted by CPU usage? I want htop to "remember" my view/sort method.

If it's relevant, I'm currently on Xubuntu 13.10.

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 13 '18 at 13:24

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Run htop, press F6, select CPU%.

Quit by using F10

If it doesn't remember your settings check your ~/.config/htop/htoprc file if it is writable by your user. You might make it writable like this:

chown $USER ~/.config/htop/htoprc

Or you can try removing it and let htop generate a new one, maybe the old one is corrupted somehow.

rm ~/.config/htop/htoprc

edited Mar 13 '18 at 13:24

galoget

answered Jan 05 '14 at 21:40

falconer

John Mark Scarborough · Answer 2 · 2015-02-22T17:13:34.883

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I noticed I had to actually quit properly using F10 and not Ctrl + C for htop to save the sort by column.

edited Feb 22 '15 at 17:13

answered Feb 22 '15 at 17:08

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 31 '15 at 08:50

3

Other solutions are better, but if all else fails, you can make an alias for htop -s PERCENT_CPU.

answered May 31 '15 at 08:50

Mark

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