AE TaskManager is a high-performance, feature-rich, and modern System Monitor and Advanced Diagnostics Tool for Linux operating systems, written in Rust utilizing the egui immediate-mode graphical user interface library.
Inspired by modern visual aesthetics (such as Windows 11 design styling), it features a sleek dark theme with rounded corners, smooth animations, and a fully decoupled non-blocking worker thread architecture that guarantees a smooth user experience without interface freezing or stuttering.
- Comprehensive Process List: Monitor all active processes with details like PID, Name, CPU%, Memory (RSS)%, Disk Read/Write, Owner User, and Executable Path, with instant searching and column sorting.
- Right-Click Context Menu:
- ❌ Terminate Task: Safely terminate a process with standard user permissions.
- 🛡️ Force Terminate (Admin): Instantly force-kills a process using root permissions via graphical Polkit authorization (
pkexec). - 📂 Open File Location: Opens the directory of the running process in the system's default file manager (
xdg-open). - 🔍 Search Web: Performs a quick search of the process name in your default browser.
- 📝 Properties: Displays comprehensive process parameters in a custom-styled modal window with a copy-to-clipboard option.
- 🌳 Expandable Process Tree View: Groups processes hierarchically by parent/child PID relationships with collapsible/expandable nodes.
- Dynamic, high-fidelity real-time line charts tracking CPU utilization, Memory (RAM) consumption, GPU Memory usage (if available), Disk Read/Write, and Network I/O (Upload/Download) with millisecond-level responsiveness.
- Scans and lists all systemd service units, showing Load, Active, and Sub states with dynamic text filtering.
- Non-blocking control mechanisms running on background threads:
▶️ Start Service / ⏹️ Stop Service / 🔄 Restart Service.- ⚡ Enable on Startup / ❌ Disable on Startup.
- Safe administrative escalation via standard Linux Polkit (
pkexec) displaying standard graphical password dialogs.
- Scans system-wide (
/etc/xdg/autostart) and user-specific (~/.config/autostart).desktopstartup entry files. - Allows user-level autostart overrides using standard copy-on-write mechanisms via interactive toggle switches.
- Maps active network TCP/UDP (IPv4/IPv6) endpoints by directly parsing
/proc/net/sockets on-demand. - Resolves local/remote endpoints, connection states, and maps them to the respective owning Process Name and PID without spawning slow external commands.
- Sweeps
/proc/*/fd/links dynamically to trace which active processes are holding open handles or kilit descriptors on a target directory or file path. - Offers inline Terminate Task triggers to instantly resolve locked files.
- Asynchronous Execution (Non-blocking Threads): Heavily blocking commands like file descriptor sweeps, D-Bus queries, and systemctl actions are dispatched to background threads utilizing Rust
std::sync::mpscchannels, keeping the GUI extremely responsive. - Intelligent Localization (EN/TR): Features system language auto-detection (checks
LANG,LC_ALL, andLC_MESSAGESvariables). If the system language is Turkish, the interface automatically loads in Turkish. Otherwise, it defaults to English. - Zero Unsafe: Built entirely following modern Rust safety standards with zero
unsafeblocks.
To compile and run this application, make sure your system has Rust (Cargo) and some necessary developer packages installed.
Ubuntu / Debian / Pop!_OS:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libdbus-1-dev pkg-configFedora / RHEL:
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo dnf install dbus-devel pkg-configArch Linux / Manjaro:
sudo pacman -Syu base-devel dbusClone the repository, enter the project directory, and compile/run in optimized release mode:
# Enter the project directory
cd "ae-linux-task-manager"
# Compile and run in release mode
cargo run --releaseThis project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. For details, see the LICENSE and NOTICE files.
Developed by AethelisDEV
