Tux Manager

A Linux Task Manager alternative built with Qt6, inspired by the Windows Task Manager but designed to go further - providing deep visibility into system processes, performance metrics, users, and services.

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Installing

Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora / EL derivatives (Rocky/Alma/OL)

Use prebuilt packages that can be downloaded from releases

Arch Linux

Install from the official repositories:

sudo pacman -S tuxmanager

Nixpkgs

The package is available as tux-manager in the unstable channels and will be available in the nixos-26.11 stable channel and later.

Nix flake

Add the following to your flake.nix:

inputs.tuxManager.url = "github:benapetr/TuxManager/";
inputs.tuxManager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; # optional, deduplicates dependencies

You can then access the package at: inputs.tuxManager.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.default

Others

You can use an AppImage that can be downloaded from releases or just build it yourself.

Building

qmake

# cd to root of the repo and then:
mkdir build && cd build
qmake6 ../src
make -j$(nproc)
./tux-manager

Translating

To test a different UI locale without changing the system settings, override the process locale when launching the application:

LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 ./tux-manager  # Simplified Chinese
LC_ALL=cs_CZ.UTF-8 ./tux-manager  # Czech
LC_ALL=pt_BR.UTF-8 ./tux-manager  # Brazilian Portuguese
LC_ALL=C ./tux-manager            # Built-in English

The requested locale may need to be generated or installed on the host system.

Important note regarding AI-assisted translations: Please do NOT submit translations generated "blindly" by AI without review by a native speaker of the language.

Core philosophy and goals of this project

• KISS - keep it simple stupid
• Lean and clean codebase, minimal system footprint (low RAM and CPU usage)
• Stability and reliability, easy debugging
• No overengineered or unnecessary extra features
• Simple packaging flow - for each packaging tool, there should be a script or 1 line command
• Minimal dependencies on 3rd party libs besides Qt so that building anywhere should be trivial
• Keep everything well documented

License

GPL-3.0-or-later