Enhancement Request: Configuration file

[clinstid]

It would be great if gotop supported loading configuration from a file for the command line options. I would love to be able to set my color scheme once and then just run gotop directly. It looks like gotop is already pulling in ProtonMail/go-appdir for loading custom color schemes so it seems like it wouldn't be too much more to add support for a config file.

[cjbassi]

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.

[kingdevnl]

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

[clinstid]

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. :smile:

[cjbassi]

@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.

[ghost]

@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.

[cjbassi]

@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.