How can I save the view to sort by CPU usage?
Run htop
, press F6, select CPU%
.
Quit by using F10
If it doesn't remember your settings check your ~/.config/htop/htoprc
file if it is writable by your user. You might make it writable like this:
chown $USER ~/.config/htop/htoprc
Or you can try removing it and let htop
generate a new one, maybe the old one is corrupted somehow.
rm ~/.config/htop/htoprc
I noticed I had to actually quit properly using F10 and not Ctrl + C for htop to save the sort by column.
Other solutions are better, but if all else fails, you can make an alias for htop -s PERCENT_CPU
.