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Task Manager
Processes grouped by app, performance graphs, startup apps and services
Open it with Ctrl+Shift+Esc, from the Aurora menu, from
Launchpad, or with aurora-taskmanager.
Processes
Three groups, each with CPU (a share of the whole computer, as on Windows), memory and disk activity:
- Apps
- Everything that has a window. An app's processes (for example a browser's many content processes) are folded under it with their count; double-click or right-click → Expand to see them.
- Background processes
- Your other processes: the shell, the compositor, sound, sync clients…
- System processes
- Other users' and the system's, when Show system processes is ticked.
Click a column's title to sort by it. Busy values are highlighted.
- End Task (Delete)
- Asks the app to quit, like closing it.
- Kill (Shift+Delete)
- Stops it at once, without saving.
- Open File Location
- Shows the program's file in Files.
System processes can only be stopped by the administrator; use sudo kill PID in a
terminal.
Performance
The last minute as graphs in your accent color:
- Processor: use, cores, average speed, up time.
- Memory: in use and total, available, cached, swap in use.
- Disk: read and write speed of the whole disks, free space and capacity.
- Network: total speed, receive and send.
Startup Apps
The apps that start when you log in (XDG autostart), with a switch each. Turning one off writes an override in ~/.config/autostart; the system's own file is never changed.
Services
The system's and your own services (systemd units), with their state, filtered by the search box. Start, Stop and Restart: your own services directly, system services after the administrator password.