haskell-dmenu-pkill

dmenu script for killing applications. Can be sorted by process id or CPU/Memory usage.

Runtime Dependencies: dmenu or dmenu2, and the standard linux tools ps and kill.

Installation: Either get the sources from this repository, or from hackage.

Usage:

dmenu-pkill [OPTIONS] [-- DMENUOPTIONS]

Spawns a dmenu process to let the user select processes to kill with kill -9.

All arguments, after the first -- argument, are directly passed to dmenu.

Options:

-cpu

Sort processes by CPU usage as displayed with ps.
-mem

Sort processes by memory usage as displayed with ps.
-pid

Sort processes by process id (default).

The application is build with the dmenu Haskell bindings, which support customizing the dmenu commandline options in a configuration file.