I'm having a problem with top and htop. I "think" top used to show more processes on the screen at one time than it does now. Htop doesn't show any processes at all. Any one else having this problem? I haven't used either programs for quite some time so I don't know when this started.

Looks like htop was upgraded on October 15th according to the ChangeLog.

Both most recent versions are working fine for me. Try checking the display options in htop with F2.

Thank you. I did that and it shows "F1 F2 F then in green Display Options". Can't get anything to work after that.

Some suggestions:

Try logging into other terminals at ctl-shift-F2, ctl-shift-F3, etc. Ctl-shift-F1 to get back. Exit your desktop environment if you're in one (KDE, xfce, etc) to terminal. Or don't start startx and try it in the terminal. Log into other accounts and try there. Especially the root account.

Failing all that, try reinstall those two programs. This link is for 64 current.

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...t/slackware64/

htop is in AP. I'm not sure where top is.

top and other process utilities such as pidof,pkill,pstree,uptime,vmstat are bundled in the series a/procps-ng package

The config files are ~/.toprc and ~/.config/htop/htoprc NakedRider could try deleting or renaming them to get the progs to start with the default settings.

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Thank you. I did that and it still didn't work.

do other commands such as 'ps -Ao user,uid,comm,pid,pcpu --sort=-pcpu' and 'pstree' provide a process list?

Yes, you are right I am also having the same problem.

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Thank you those both work.

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Thank you. Now we're getting somewhere. I exited KDE and ran htop from the terminal and it works fine. I also reinstalled the htop package but it didn't change anything. Not sure were to go from here. Thanks again for the replies.

I gave you a bunch to see where it trip up. Many programs typically store config/data in the user account's home folder and each one of these terminals call up their configurations from different locations. Based on what you've reported thus far, the cause of your issue may lies somewhere in this particular KDE terminal emulator's configuration file. There are a few terminal emulators in Slackware so you'd need to tell us which one you're using that top/htop didn't worked in. Configuring/repairing terminals is not a strong suit of mine so I'll bow out here.

You nailed it. I'm using konsole. When I opened up an xterm console everything worked. So I opened up a new konsole and it worked. I changed profiles and used a new one. Everything now works. Not sure what was in the original profile but some there must have been the problem.
Thanks for your help!