How do you tell what programs are currently running?

[flatiron]

ctrl alt delete won't work for this. And I don't see a program manager.

[Cosmo.]

What is your version of Mint and what is the desktop environment? If you don't know open a terminal and enter:

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inxi -Sz

Paste the output here.

The program might be named system monitor (depends from your unknown system), reachable from the administration section of the menu.

[kc1di]

you go to Menu >System Tools > System Monitor once that's up click on Processes. this will give you a list of what running at that time.
If your using KDE - it's called something different. KSysGuard I think or something like that. If your asking which programs are run automatically at start up you can go to Control Center >Startup Applications.
In the Terminal you can use a program called

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 top

to do the same thing. Or better yet install

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 htop

which gives a better display.
in the terminal type

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sudo apt install htop

when it' installs simply type

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htop

you will get a display of all the processes running and how much CPU and Ram they use.
Good luck.

[karlchen]

Hi, flatiron.

Unless you are using a KDE desktop, where the application has got a different name that I have forgotten, on Cinnamon gnome-system-monitor, on Mate mate-system-monitor and on xfce task-manager, should come pre-installed with your system. And they should be easily spotted in the Mint application menu.

Karl

[jimallyn]

ctrl alt delete won't work for this.

You can change or add keyboard shortcuts, so if you really want to use Ctrl-Alt-Del for that, you certainly can.

[Flemur]

ctrl alt delete won't work for this. And I don't see a program manager.

Terminal:

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ps aux

These are probably more what you're looking for:

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gnome-system-monitor
xfce4-taskmanager
lxtask

gnome-system-monitor can show internet use.

[flatiron]

heh. even easier to just open the menu and type system monitor. I just didn't know the right name.