A system task manager for the KDE desktop. TaskPilot gives you one graphical front-end for the many moving parts of a modern Linux system: systemd services and timers, mounts, cron jobs, autostart entries, listening ports, the journal, snaps, containers and login sessions — each in its own tab.
Built with Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6.
- Services / Timers — start, stop, restart, enable, disable over systemd D-Bus (with a polkit prompt for system units); view logs, dependencies, the unit file and its environment. Scope, status and Hide Defaults filters.
- Cron — add, edit, delete and run cron jobs; view and edit other users' crontabs after authenticating.
- Autostart — create, edit, enable/disable and remove XDG autostart entries.
- Ports — listening sockets with the owning process; reveal root-owned sockets after authenticating; terminate or kill a process.
- Mounts — unmount, plus create/inspect bind links.
- Containers — Docker, Podman and Incus/LXD: start/stop/restart, logs, inspect, shell and remove (Docker visible without group membership via polkit).
- Journal, Snaps, Sessions views.
- Tools menu — create a new service or timer, a failed-units dashboard, and
a boot-time (
systemd-analyze blame) breakdown.
Privileged operations go through a KDE KAuth helper (polkit), so you are prompted only when an action actually needs root.
Requires Qt 6.5+ and KDE Frameworks 6.
On Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules g++ qt6-base-dev \
libkf6coreaddons-dev libkf6i18n-dev libkf6xmlgui-dev libkf6config-dev \
libkf6configwidgets-dev libkf6crash-dev libkf6auth-dev libkf6itemmodels-dev \
libkf6itemviews-dev libkf6widgetsaddons-devThen:
cmake -B build
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build # installs the binary, KAuth helper and polkit policyRun with taskpilot.
GPL-3.0-or-later. The project is REUSE-compliant; see
the LICENSES/ directory and the SPDX headers in each file.
Eric Frost