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flatpak-ps - Enumerate running instances

flatpak ps [OPTION…]

Lists useful information about running Flatpak instances.

To see full details of a running instance, you can open the file run/user/$UID.flatpak/$INSTANCE/info, where /$INSTANCE/ is the instance ID reported by flatpak ps.

The following options are understood:

-h, –help

Show help options and exit.

-v, –verbose

Print debug information during command processing.

–ostree-verbose

Print OSTree debug information during command processing.

–columns=FIELD,…

Specify what information to show about each instance. You can list multiple fields, or use this option multiple times.

Append :s[tart], :m[iddle], :e[nd] or :f[ull] to column names to change ellipsization.

The following fields are understood by the –columns option:

instance

Show the instance ID

application

Show the application ID

arch

Show the architecture

branch

Show the application branch

commit

Show the application commit

runtime

Show the runtime ID

runtime-branch

Show the runtime branch

runtime-commit

Show the runtime commit

pid

Show the PID of the wrapper process

child-pid

Show the PID of the sandbox process

active

Show whether the app is active (i.e. has an active window)

background

Show whether the app is in the background (with no open windows)

all

Show all columns

help

Show the list of available columns

Note that field names can be abbreviated to a unique prefix.

$ flatpak ps –columns=application,pid,runtime,runtime-branch

*flatpak*(1), *flatpak-run*(1)