statsman 0.1.3

A terminal-based system monitoring tool with manual UI rendering, full-screen support, and dynamic layout management

StatsMan is a terminal-based system monitoring tool that provides real-time system information using ASCII visualizations.

Installation

Using pipx

pipx install statsman

Using pip

pip install statsman

Usage

Run the tool:

statsman

Options

statsman --help                     # Show help
statsman --refresh-rate 1.0         # Set refresh rate to 1 second
statsman --no-color                 # Disable color output
statsman --config ~/.statsman.yaml  # Use a custom configuration file

Keyboard Controls

• q or Ctrl+C: Quit
• p: Pause or resume updates
• c: Sort processes by CPU usage
• m: Sort processes by memory usage
• r: Reset sorting
• ↑ / ↓: Navigate the process list
• Enter: Terminate the selected process

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• Currently statsman is built only for Linux, Windows support may be added in the future

Development

git clone https://github.com/ExilProductions/statsman.git
cd statsman

pip install -e ".[dev]"

python -m statsman

Build wheel

To build a wheel distribution locally from the project root (where pyproject.toml lives):

# Install the build backend
python -m pip install build

# Build only the wheel
python -m build --wheel

The wheel file will be created in the dist/ directory and can then be installed with:

pip install dist/statsman-<version>-py3-none-any.whl

License

Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.