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WMBUBBLE(1) General Commands Manual WMBUBBLE(1)

NAME

wmbubble - system load monitor

SYNOPSIS

wmbubble [options] [program1] [program2] [...] [programN]

DESCRIPTION

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).

OPTIONS

Maximum number of simultaneous bubbles in the dockapp
Color of air and bubbles when swap is at 0%
Color of air and bubbles when swap is at 100%
Color of water when swap is at 0%
Color of water when swap is at 100%
Color of duck's body
Color of duck's bill
Color of duck's eye
delay this number of microseconds between redraws
Pixels to disturb the surface when a bubble is formed/pops
Pixels/refresh/refresh to accelerate bubbles upwards
Restorative force on water surface in proportion/refresh
Attenuation of surface velocity in proportion/refresh
Maximum water surface velocity in pixels/refresh
Displays this help
Draw the duck?
Equivalent to -duck no
Can the duck flip when the tank is overfull?
Equivalent to -upsidedown no
Show the current load at the bottom
Equivalent to -cpumeter no
Color of the digits on the graphs
Color of the digits on the memory graph when above 90%
Color of the 1 5 and 15 on load graph and m and s on mem graph
Color of the background of the graphs
Color of the grid lines in the graphs
Color of the top two pixels of the bar graph
Color of the rest of the bar graph
Color of the horizontal lines on the graph that indicate each integer load average
Adjust the digit colors to pale blue and cyan
Does hovering show the graphs
Equivalent to -graphs no
Units for memory in KB or MB
Equivalent to -units megabytes
Number of hours after midnight that are drawn as part of the previous day on digital clock and date
Draw 24h digital clock
Draw day-of-week month day-of-month
Draw analog clock face
Color of hour hand on analog clock
Color of minute hand on analog clock
Color of second hand on analog clock

RESOURCES

Maximum number of simultaneous bubbles in the dockapp
Color of air and bubbles when swap is at 0%
Color of air and bubbles when swap is at 100%
Color of water when swap is at 0%
Color of water when swap is at 100%
Color of duck's body
Color of duck's bill
Color of duck's eye
delay this number of microseconds between redraws
Pixels to disturb the surface when a bubble is formed/pops
Pixels/refresh/refresh to accelerate bubbles upwards
Restorative force on water surface in proportion/refresh
Attenuation of surface velocity in proportion/refresh
Maximum water surface velocity in pixels/refresh
Draw the duck?
Can the duck flip when the tank is overfull?
Show the current load at the bottom
Color of the digits on the graphs
Color of the digits on the memory graph when above 90%
Color of the 1 5 and 15 on load graph and m and s on mem graph
Color of the background of the graphs
Color of the grid lines in the graphs
Color of the top two pixels of the bar graph
Color of the rest of the bar graph
Color of the horizontal lines on the graph that indicate each integer load average
Does hovering show the graphs
Units for memory in KB or MB
Number of hours after midnight that are drawn as part of the previous day on digital clock and date
Draw 24h digital clock
Draw day-of-week month day-of-month
Draw analog clock face
Color of hour hand on analog clock
Color of minute hand on analog clock
Color of second hand on analog clock

AUTHOR

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.

December 1, 2014