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Task Manager

Easy to use task manager


Status: stable
Author: Mike Massonnet mmassonnet@xfce.org
Roadmap: http://wiki.xfce.org/roadmaps/taskmgr


  • Support for Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.
  • Monitors the CPU and memory usage.
  • Tree view columns can be reordered.
  • View processes as a tree.
  • Display window icons/names.
  • Customizable with some settings.
  • Filter process list on process names.
  • Support for Gtk+3.


Main Window


Latest Release

  • xfce4-taskmanager 1.6.0 released (2025/05/21 09:02)
    xfce4-taskmanager 1.6.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-taskmanager/1.6/xfce4-taskmanager-1.6.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-taskmanager/1.6/xfce4-taskmanager-1.6.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-taskmanager/1.6/xfce4-taskmanager-1.6.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-taskmanager? ========================== Easy to use task manager. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-taskmanager/start Release notes for 1.6.0 ======================= Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - process-window: Fix wrong use of g_signal_emit_by_name() - Fix process window being destroyed when status icon is visible - Remove manual registration of resources - Unify gresource files - Add support to Meson - build: Add missing dep flags - Translation Updates: Catalan, Croatian, Hungarian, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Russian

Previous Versions

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Installation Instructions

Dependencies

  • Gtk3
  • Cairo 1.5
  • Libwnck 3.0 (optional)
  • Xmu 1.1.2

Extract source code

tar xf xfce4-taskmanager-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
cd xfce4-taskmanager-<VERSION>
./configure # or ./configure --prefix=/usr

Now you can already run the application:

./src/xfce4-taskmanager

Install system wide

sudo make install

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Source Code Repository

Reporting Bugs

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