However, mytop on Solaris does not have this problem. You can't specify the maximum number of threads to list. If you have many threads and a tall xterm, mytop will always try to display as many as it can fit. The size of most of the columns in the display has a small maximum width. I have no good idea as to how best to deal with that yet.
Suggestions are welcome.
It'd be nice if you could just add mytop configuration directives in your my.cnf file instead of having a separate config file. You should be able to specify the columns you'd like to see in the display and the order in which they appear. If you only have one username that connects to your database, it's probably not worth having the User column appear, for example. PL that can install mytop and optionally generate a config file. I will be able to respond more quickly and it will show that you bothered to read the documentation first.