Htop: How to add new graph mode?

[edouard-lopez]

This is probably a stupid question but after building the 2.0.0 following #439, I don't have any graph.

I went to the _setup_ menu and try to add CPU Average and Load average, still nothing.

Is there a flag or something like that to enable the graph ?

[Explorer09]

Remember you can press space bar to change the meter style. That way you can get the graph display you want.
And by the way, graph display for Load average will not probably work what you expect. It's work-in-progress. Patches are welcome.

[hishamhm]

@edouard-lopez some meters make more "sense" as graphs and bars than others because they have a logical "maximum" value that can be used to gauge the size of the bar or the height of the Y axis of the graph. For example, for CPU that is 100%, for memory that is total RAM size. For load, on the other hand, there is no maximum value.

[hishamhm]

To further clarify, htop supports setting any meter in any mode (pressing Space, as @Explorer09 mentioned), but it's not in the plans to try to make every mode work optimally in every meter, because some of them either don't make sense or don't fit (as in the case of the LED mode).

[edouard-lopez]

Thank,
I didn't know about the possibility to change the meter style and there is no indication you can do that in the shorcuts list at the bottom.
It Should be added to improve discoverability.

[Explorer09]

@edouard-lopez No, there is. It's just not easily discoverable. And that's why I propose this: #414