Pause and resume ?

[Gys]

Great idea ! Very useful :-)

An additional idea: I often use STOP and CONT to pause processes that take a lot of energy while I do not have power. To save power for things that I really need at that moment.

[heppu]

Thanks @Gys!
Sending other signals sounds like nice idea. I want to keep the basic usage for sending TERM really simple so do you have and idea about the flow for sending other signals?
First thing that comes in my mind is shift + enter which would give the list of signals to send and would select one like you select the process.

[Gys]

Or a second enter ?
So first enter selects the process and then shows a list of possible signals. Default signal is TERM, but with up / down its possible to select another signal. Then the next return sends that signal to the selected process.
Seems easy in the way that the user does not have to know key combinations (like shift+enter). But it means to enter twice for a TERM. Although its still only two keys: twice the enter instead of shift+enter ;-)

[heppu]

Hmm yeah that would be also a valid way to go. I would really like to keep to flow as simple as possible but on the other hand like you said then the user would have to know the key combination for sending other signals. I guess I need to implement both and do some evaluation. =)

[dszczyt]

I would see a left/right keys binding to select the signal to send on enter.

[Gys]

@heppu Using left and right keys seems indeed a very good idea. Then there is no extra effort to terminate if that is the default action. Only in case something else is required, something extra has to be done.