The KTop Handbook: Introduction
Description: ktop
Keywords: process monitor, top, ps

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### 1. Introduction

### 1.1 About KTop

KTop is the KDE Task Manager. It displays the processes running on computer in list and tree form. Processes can be killed and various other signals can be send to specific processes. It also features a processor load and memory usage monitor.

### 1.2 Authors

KTop is currently developed and maintained by Chris Schläger cs@kde.org. In the past several other people have worked on KTop:

- A. Sanda <alex@darkstar.ping.at>
- Ralf Mueller <ralf@bj-ig.de>
- Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben@math.cornell.edu>
- Nicolas Leclercq <nicknet@planete.net>

The porting to other platforms than Linux was done by:

- FreeBSD: Hans Petter Bieker <zerium@traad.lavvu.no>

### 1.3 License and Warranty

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>     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>     (at your option) any later version.

>     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>     GNU General Public License for more details.

>     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>     Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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