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Keep a copy of .htoprc with your ssh keys. I have a skeleton /home on my keyring for using various machines with ease.

turminal 6y ago
And everytime one toggles any setting that's is retained over htop restarts like tree view, the file gets edited. And you get diverging files everywhere. Annoyed me very much. Had to write a custom patch to disable some of it.
- voltagex_ 6y ago
  chmod +i .htoprc?
  - reitanqild 6y ago
    For the benefit of someone like me who only uses Linux and bash on behalf of myself and the companies I work for and haven't studied it extensively, can anyone here tell me what the i is for? I wasn't able to find it in man chmod on my machine, DDG failed me, as did Google. (positive feedback to employees of DDG and Google: whenever I get assigned to the experiment where you show the snippet you thing matches my query it brightens my day, - even if the snippet shows that the result was irrelevant like here "<something about> chmod. I <something about the author>". I think Google used to nail this back in 2007 but anyways, seing the snippet in the front page helps a lot.)
    - teddyh 6y ago
      Immutable. The reason you couldn’t find it in chmod(1) is because it’s the wrong command. The correct command (and manual page) is chattr(1).
      - voltagex_ 6y ago
        Oops! Thank you.
  - simias 6y ago
    `chmod 440 ~/.config/htop/htoprc` did the trick for me. Still an unnecessary annoyance but I'll live.
  - voltagex_ 6y ago
    just replying to myself as I got it wrong, it's chattr +i, not chmod. Sorry! (and thanks to the response below correcting me)
- simias 6y ago
  I agree. I like htop a lot but this behaviour is very hostile. Toggling an option at runtime shouldn't overide the static config without confirmation.
- ninjin 6y ago
  Indeed, why oh why is there no way to provide configuration preferences apart from doing so interactively? I would gladly wrap the command to provide it using flags, but no. I would equally gladly edit a configuration file (even if the syntax was wonky), but no. Instead I am left having to remember to set (and reset!) my defaults across users and machines.
vemv 6y ago
Do you mean it's possible to cleanly auto-inject a .htoprc on whatever machine I SSH into? If so I'd like to learn about the technique
- artificialLimbs 6y ago
  Same. Along with .vimrc and .tmux.conf
- Fnoord 6y ago
  You can use rsync or Git for this purpose.

And everytime one toggles any setting that's is retained over htop restarts like tree view, the file gets edited. And you get diverging files everywhere. Annoyed me very much. Had to write a custom patch to disable some of it.

voltagex_ 6y ago
chmod +i .htoprc?
- reitanqild 6y ago
  For the benefit of someone like me who only uses Linux and bash on behalf of myself and the companies I work for and haven't studied it extensively, can anyone here tell me what the i is for? I wasn't able to find it in man chmod on my machine, DDG failed me, as did Google. (positive feedback to employees of DDG and Google: whenever I get assigned to the experiment where you show the snippet you thing matches my query it brightens my day, - even if the snippet shows that the result was irrelevant like here "<something about> chmod. I <something about the author>". I think Google used to nail this back in 2007 but anyways, seing the snippet in the front page helps a lot.)
  - teddyh 6y ago
    Immutable. The reason you couldn’t find it in chmod(1) is because it’s the wrong command. The correct command (and manual page) is chattr(1).
    - voltagex_ 6y ago
      Oops! Thank you.
- simias 6y ago
  `chmod 440 ~/.config/htop/htoprc` did the trick for me. Still an unnecessary annoyance but I'll live.
- voltagex_ 6y ago
  just replying to myself as I got it wrong, it's chattr +i, not chmod. Sorry! (and thanks to the response below correcting me)
simias 6y ago
I agree. I like htop a lot but this behaviour is very hostile. Toggling an option at runtime shouldn't overide the static config without confirmation.
ninjin 6y ago
Indeed, why oh why is there no way to provide configuration preferences apart from doing so interactively? I would gladly wrap the command to provide it using flags, but no. I would equally gladly edit a configuration file (even if the syntax was wonky), but no. Instead I am left having to remember to set (and reset!) my defaults across users and machines.

vemv 6y ago

Do you mean it's possible to cleanly auto-inject a .htoprc on whatever machine I SSH into? If so I'd like to learn about the technique

artificialLimbs 6y ago
Same. Along with .vimrc and .tmux.conf
Fnoord 6y ago
You can use rsync or Git for this purpose.