Enhancement Request: Configuration file about gotop

[xxxserxxx]

Thanks for bringing this up as I've been thinking about adding a config file too. I'm curious though, why not just set a persistent shell alias with the color scheme specified? I think a config file would be good for more complex customization options but I'm curious about whether the current options should be available in a config file.

[xxxserxxx]

Yea and an option to change how the CPU temp is gotten, I would love to run this software on my RPI3

[xxxserxxx]

I'm curious though, why not just set a persistent shell alias with the color scheme specified

I absolutely could do that, but if I had the option to use a config file I would prefer that since I don't like to obfuscate commands with shell aliases.Just my own personal preference though. 😄

[xxxserxxx]

@kingdevnl Is there another library to retrieve temperatures besides gopsutil? If so, we should just add its functionality to gopsutil so that it works for RPI3.

[xxxserxxx]

@cjbassi I was also contemplating adding configurable layout, and this would be a good place to set that. Doing it on the command line would be clunky.

[xxxserxxx]

@serussell Yah I was thinking that too, a config file would be better than the cli for configuring the layout. And we would probably need a way to configure the layout if we added any more widgets.

[xxxserxxx]

A pull request was submitted by @jrswab (jrswab/gotop/configFile111). The changes have the config as JSON; since the configs are not complex (and not nested), I'm suggesting we use a simple key=vaule format instead.

[xxxserxxx]

@jrswab @ghost @clinstid @kingdevnl

This has been added in the v3.3.0 in the release.

@jrswab, thanks for the patch. I ended up writing much of it from scratch because of a couple of substantial differences between Caleb's fork, such as how layouts are handled, and wanting to make sure command line flags overwrote config file values. Anyhoo, it's in.