gotop VS picom

Compare gotop vs picom and see what are their differences.

gotop

A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop (by cjbassi)

picom

A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
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gotop picom
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7,009 3,777
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1.7 9.5
over 3 years ago 8 days ago
Go C
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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gotop

Posts with mentions or reviews of gotop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.

picom

Posts with mentions or reviews of picom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gotop and picom you can also consider the following projects:

compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]

compton - A compositor for X11.

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

xfce-patches - Some patches for Xfce's components

xmonad-contrib - Contributed modules for xmonad

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor