Is there a simple GUI application that will monitor running processes periodically and alert the user when a process is not running? The ones I have found are far too complex (eg Monit). I am sure this is trivial to achieve with a script, but I’d rather use a GUI.

A use case would look like this: every 60 minutes check if Syncthing is running and display a notification if it’s not. In my experience, Syncthing is very reliable when it launches successfully but there may be an issue with conflicting versions that may prevent it from running at boot. Syncthing has no way to alert the GUI user when something goes wrong and you may find after you left home that your laptop hasn’t synced. Checking manually is a headache, prone to errors and goes against the idea of fit and forget.

(Debian Trixie with KDE Plasma)

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    101·
    19 hours ago

    1-liner would be something like watch -n 10 "pgrep konsole || kdialog --msgbox 'konsole no running'"

    namely :

    • watch to repeat a command at interval, e.g. every minute (could also be crontab)
    • pgrep to check if a process is running
    • kdialog on KDE to send a message to the current user (plenty more ways)
    • Stopwatch1986@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 hour ago

      You learn something new every day here ;) The good thing about kdialog is you can’t miss it. Thanks.