wmbubble - system load monitor
wmbubble [options] [program1]
[program2] [...] [programN]
This manual page documents briefly the wmbubble
command.
wmbubble is a dockapp-style CPU, memory, swap and load
average monitor. Based on the GNOME BubbleMon applet, this program has been
considerably improved.
The higher the water level, the more memory is in use. The more
profuse the bubbles, the higher the CPU usage. There is also a real-time CPU
percentage display.
When the mouse is moved into the window, the display will change
to show the load history, or, if either shift key is held, the current
memory usage. If you press the right mouse button, the window will freeze in
that state. You can unfreeze the display by pressing the right mouse button
again.
program1, program2, and so on are the programs to
spawn when various buttons on the mouse are pressed while the pointer is
over the dockapp. For the vast majority of users, there can be up to 9 of
those buttons, and in order they are: the left(1), middle(2), and right(3)
mouse buttons; up(4), down(5), left(6), and right(7) on the mouse wheels;
and the backwards(8) and forwards(9) mouse buttons.
Additionally, the right mouse button (program3) will only
be executed if the graphs are disabled (otherwise that argument is
ignored).
- -maxbubbles
- Maximum number of simultaneous bubbles in the dockapp
- -air_noswap
- Color of air and bubbles when swap is at 0%
- -air_maxswap
- Color of air and bubbles when swap is at 100%
- -liquid_noswap
- Color of water when swap is at 0%
- -liquid_maxswap
- Color of water when swap is at 100%
- -duckbody
- Color of duck's body
- -duckbill
- Color of duck's bill
- -duckeye
- Color of duck's eye
- -delay
- delay this number of microseconds between redraws
- -ripples
- Pixels to disturb the surface when a bubble is formed/pops
- -gravity
- Pixels/refresh/refresh to accelerate bubbles upwards
- -volatility
- Restorative force on water surface in proportion/refresh
- -viscosity
- Attenuation of surface velocity in proportion/refresh
- -speed_limit
- Maximum water surface velocity in pixels/refresh
- -help
- Displays this help
- -duck
- Draw the duck?
- -d
- Equivalent to -duck no
- -upsidedown
- Can the duck flip when the tank is overfull?
- -u
- Equivalent to -upsidedown no
- -cpumeter
- Show the current load at the bottom
- -c
- Equivalent to -cpumeter no
- -graphdigit
- Color of the digits on the graphs
- -graphwarn
- Color of the digits on the memory graph when above 90%
- -graphlabel
- Color of the 1 5 and 15 on load graph and m and s on mem graph
- -graphfield
- Color of the background of the graphs
- -graphgrid
- Color of the grid lines in the graphs
- -graphmax
- Color of the top two pixels of the bar graph
- -graphbar
- Color of the rest of the bar graph
- -graphmarkers
- Color of the horizontal lines on the graph that indicate each integer load
average
- -p
- Adjust the digit colors to pale blue and cyan
- -graphs
- Does hovering show the graphs
- -m
- Equivalent to -graphs no
- -units
- Units for memory in KB or MB
- -k
- Equivalent to -units megabytes
- -shifttime
- Number of hours after midnight that are drawn as part of the previous day
on digital clock and date
- -digital
- Draw 24h digital clock
- -showdate
- Draw day-of-week month day-of-month
- -analog
- Draw analog clock face
- -hourcolor
- Color of hour hand on analog clock
- -mincolor
- Color of minute hand on analog clock
- -seccolor
- Color of second hand on analog clock
wmbubble was originally written by timecop
<timecop@japan.co.jp> but is now maintained by Robert Jacobs
<rnjacobs@mit.edu>
This manual page was originally written by John H. Robinson, IV
<jaqque@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system but has since
been moved upstream.