I miss taskmgr so much on Linux/macOS. Everything in taskmgr feels so logical and manageable without extra steps.
Have you used the KDE System Monitor (on Linux)? It feels pretty similar.
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
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Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#112Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#113My favourite part of Task Manager lore are nearly undocumented keyboard shortcuts: - pause updates by holding CTRL pressed, - hit F5 for refresh (standard binding, isn't it?), or hold F5 to get refreshes way more frequent than with View > Update Speed > High. They might have been visible in menu mnemonics in past versions (?), or might have been mentioned in the help, but now, while still working, there is no clear w…
Is there a way to get Task Manager to kill a fullscreen app without navigating a bunch of menus behind the frozen full screen?
There is a setting to always draw on top somewhere in the menubar. Saved me a couple of times.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#114My favourite part of Task Manager lore are nearly undocumented keyboard shortcuts: - pause updates by holding CTRL pressed, - hit F5 for refresh (standard binding, isn't it?), or hold F5 to get refreshes way more frequent than with View > Update Speed > High. They might have been visible in menu mnemonics in past versions (?), or might have been mentioned in the help, but now, while still working, there is no clear w…
Is there a way to get Task Manager to kill a fullscreen app without navigating a bunch of menus behind the frozen full screen?
Sometimes I could overcome that problem by switching to another virtual desktop/workspace (if necessary creating one temporarily) and using the task manager there.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#115In this day and age (Windows 10), every time I have to use Task Manager it's because a fullscreen game has crashed, and I usually can't see Task Manager at all. It opens behind the fullscreen game and doesn't come to the foreground, even when I alt+tab. I usually end up using the up/down keys to select the right process, looking at the Task Manager in the tiny preview that pops up while Alt+Tab is pressed. It is extr…
There is an option to always open task manager on top. Open task manager and open the options menu. (This was mentioned in the feature reddit thread)
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#116> visually complicated app to ever be fully resizable in all dimensions without any flicker This is still ridiculously hard to do on Windows if using standard controls as a filler. Especially when resizing by the top or left edge. The only trick I know is to attach D3D context to the window, but even that has edge cases that look even more jarring than regular flickering.
WS_CLIPCHILDREN? I haven't had problems with using that to eliminate flicker. When drawing using GDI, double-buffering also works. (Long-time Win32 developer here.)
This works in some cases, not all. Editboxes flicker if they have focus and are being resized. They also flicker when resized programmatically (e.g. when doing layout transition animations) and this is virtually impossible to eliminate, but that's a separate issue.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#117Dave also has his own YT channel full of "hidden" stories about old microsoft tech he worked on. Be sure to check him out, he's got quite a few good ones :) https://www.youtube.com/c/DavesGarage/videos
He has some nice content, but I cant deal with the click bait thumbs
Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's annoying but I think he has some very worthwhile content.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Closest I can think of is Safe Mode, at least based on the definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode - but running on reduced resources isn't exactly the same, so I'm sure there's a better answer. Inviting correction by people with more extensive engineering experience; most of mine is in breaking rather than building.
Perhaps the most appropriate term would be fault-tolerant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerance
FT usually (at least in IT) implies a way to switch/defer/transfer the task to other node without an interruption (or a very minor degradation) of service.
A synchronious replication of a VM would be an example of a FT service (so it can continue to work without losing the current state). Failover is a process of restoring the operation with losing the current state (so vmware's HA is clearly FO if you dig below the marketing bullshit).
Described behaviour of the Task Manager is not FT, FO or HA.
Other commenters provided good variants, personally I would go with "Graceful Degradation", because it proceeds with a minimal functionality only if there were problems with normal operation.
Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#119Re: I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
#120there's a hidden feature I don't like at all. if you double click on the "white area" just inside the border, it goes into a " maximized" state where title bar and menus will disappear.
it's so easy to enter this mode by mistake and no obvious way to get back