slmenu-todo VS htop

dmenu is great for a graphical environment. At the prompt, I've found some success with slmenu [0]. It's a dmenu clone for the command line. It works well enough that a dmenu script for a todo app works with very little changes [1]. As a launcher there's many dmenu example scripts to start from. Youtube has videos to get you started as well [2].

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/slmenu

[1] https://github.com/lpsantil/slmenu-todo

[2] https://youtu.be/SlJto75auCA

These certainly aren't forgotten, but I like:

* `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/

* `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

* `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/

I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming.

Probably everyone knows about the "top" command. Htop is similar, but gives us a more user-friendly output. It shows processes using the most resources, how much available resources you have and who runs those processes. For more information, visit https://htop.dev/

determine which processes consume specific resources (in your particular case even a "5 minutes session of staring at htop" would do the trick.) (Alternatives: ps -ef, ps aux, top, glances ... )

When you see the laptop throttling, is htop or another monitoring program showing that the RAM is full, or is it only partly used?

I like htop to check system resources

try htop. It's already on Ubuntu, not sure about other flavors.

Program it in yourself: https://github.com/htop-dev/htop

htop is a colour-coded command-line system monitor, process viewer, and process manager. It shows a list of processes running on your computer ordered by CPU usage