Submission checklist
Plugin
procmon
Feature type
UI / visual improvement
Feature summary
Group processes with the same command name into collapsible rows, with a single kill-all action per group.
Motivation / use case
Multi-process applications (Chrome, Firefox, VS Code, Electron apps, etc.) each spawn dozens of PIDs with identical command names. In the current flat table, a 24-instance Chrome floods 24 table rows and makes it hard to find unrelated processes. Killing a stuck app requires clicking the kill button on every single PID, which is tedious and slow.
Proposed solution
Add a group_by_name toggle setting (default false, preserving current behavior). When enabled, processes with the same command name are merged into a single collapsible row showing the name, instance count, aggregated CPU and memory, and a kill-all button. Clicking the row expands it inline to reveal individual PIDs, each keeping their own per-row kill button. The kill-all action sends the configured kill_command to every PID in the group and requires confirmation. Processes that only have a single instance are displayed as a normal row without the group UI.
Alternatives considered
Always-grouped without expand/collapse would lose the ability to kill individual instances. Multi-select with checkboxes is a more complex interaction and slower for the common "nuke this app" use case. A "kill by name" context menu per row is ambiguous when filtering hides some PIDs of the same name.
References / related projects
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Additional context
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Submission checklist
Plugin
procmon
Feature type
UI / visual improvement
Feature summary
Group processes with the same command name into collapsible rows, with a single kill-all action per group.
Motivation / use case
Multi-process applications (Chrome, Firefox, VS Code, Electron apps, etc.) each spawn dozens of PIDs with identical command names. In the current flat table, a 24-instance Chrome floods 24 table rows and makes it hard to find unrelated processes. Killing a stuck app requires clicking the kill button on every single PID, which is tedious and slow.
Proposed solution
Add a
group_by_nametoggle setting (defaultfalse, preserving current behavior). When enabled, processes with the same command name are merged into a single collapsible row showing the name, instance count, aggregated CPU and memory, and a kill-all button. Clicking the row expands it inline to reveal individual PIDs, each keeping their own per-row kill button. The kill-all action sends the configuredkill_commandto every PID in the group and requires confirmation. Processes that only have a single instance are displayed as a normal row without the group UI.Alternatives considered
Always-grouped without expand/collapse would lose the ability to kill individual instances. Multi-select with checkboxes is a more complex interaction and slower for the common "nuke this app" use case. A "kill by name" context menu per row is ambiguous when filtering hides some PIDs of the same name.
References / related projects
No response
Additional context
No response