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General Usage
You can run bottom with:
btm
For help regarding the command-line flags, use:
# For a simple overview of flags
btm -h
# For more details
btm --help
Features
Expansion
By default, bottom is somewhat like a dashboard - a bunch of different widgets, all showing different things, and they all cram together to fit into one terminal.
If you instead just want to see one widget - maybe you want to look at a graph in more detail, for example - you can "expand" the currently selected widget using the ++e++ key, which will hide all other widgets and make that widget take up all available terminal space.
You can leave this state by either pressing ++e++ again or pressing ++esc++.
Widget selection
To allow for widget-specific keybindings and expansion, there is the idea of widget selection in bottom, where you can focus on a specific widget to work with it. This can be done with the mouse (just click on the widget of interest) or keyboard (ex: ++ctrl+"Direction"++, see Key bindings for alternatives).
Key bindings
These are global or common keyboard shortcuts for the application, which you can see in-app through the ++question++ shortcut. Note that key bindings are generally case-sensitive.
| Binding | Action |
|---|---|
| ++q++ , ++ctrl+c++ | Quit |
| ++esc++ | Close dialog windows, search, widgets, or exit expanded mode |
| ++ctrl+r++ | Reset display and any collected data |
| ++f++ | Freeze/unfreeze updating with new data |
| ++question++ | Open help menu |
| ++e++ | Toggle expanding the currently selected widget |
| ++ctrl+up++ ++shift+up++ ++K++ ++W++ |
Select the widget above |
| ++ctrl+down++ ++shift+down++ ++J++ ++S++ |
Select the widget below |
| ++ctrl+left++ ++shift+left++ ++H++ ++A++ |
Select the widget on the left |
| ++ctrl+right++ ++shift+right++ ++L++ ++D++ |
Select the widget on the right |
| ++up++ , ++k++ | Move up within a widget |
| ++down++ , ++j++ | Move down within a widget |
| ++left++ ++h++ ++alt+h++ |
Move left within a widget |
| ++right++ ++l++ ++alt+l++ |
Move right within a widget |
| ++g+g++ , ++home++ | Jump to the first entry |
| ++G++ , ++end++ | Jump to the last entry |
| ++page-up++ , ++page-down++ | Scroll up/down a table by a page |
| ++ctrl+u++ | Scroll up a table by half a page |
| ++ctrl+d++ | Scroll down a table by half a page |
Mouse bindings
| Binding | Action |
|---|---|
| ++lbutton++ | Selects the widget |