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5 .TH WMACPILOAD 1 "March 26, 2003"
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19 wmacpiload \- A dockapp to monitor acpi battery status and cpu temp
21 .B wmapmload [options]
23 This manual page documents briefly the
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30 \fBWMacpiLoad\fP is a program to monitor battery and cpu temp. It is a dockapp
31 that is supported by X window managers such as Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and
34 The CPU temperature is displayed in the top half. The battery load percentage
35 is in the bottom half in two manner : number and graphic. Next to percentage
36 number are the on-line/on-battery and on-charge status. It has an LCD
37 look-alike user interface.
38 The back-light may be turned on/off by clicking the mouse button 1 (left)
39 over the application. If battery status is below a critical level, an
40 alarm-mode will alert you by turning on and off back-light. This can be
41 stopped (and restarted) by clicking the mouse button 3 (right) over the
42 application. An application can be launched when alarm is on to notify
43 user that level is too low.
44 By clicking with mouse button 2 (middle), the computer can be put in
45 STANDBY (default) or SUSPEND mode (with CONTROL key).
48 This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
49 starting with two dashes (`\-'). A summary of options is included below.
51 .B \-d, \-\-display <string>
52 Attempt to open a window on the named X display. In the absence of this option,
53 the display specified by the
55 environment variable is used.
57 .B \-bl, \-\-backlight
60 .B \-lc, \-\-light\-color <color>
61 back-light color (rgb:6E/C6/3B is default)
63 .B \-i, \-\-interval <number>
64 number of secs between updates (1 is default)
66 .B \-a, \-\-alarm <number>
67 low battery level when to raise alarm (20 is default)
70 show help text and exit
73 show program version and exit
76 run the application in windowed mode
78 .B \-bw, \-\-broken\-wm
79 activate broken window manager fix
81 .B \-n, \-\-notify <string>
82 command to launch each time there is alarm
84 .B \-s, \-\-suspend <string>
85 set command for acpi suspend
87 .B \-S, \-\-standby <string>
88 set command for acpi standby
92 WMACPILoad was assembled by Anthony Peacock <bratag44@hotmail.com> It is massively based on code by
93 Thomas Nemeth <tnemeth@free.fr>. It is largely based on WMMemMon and WMCPULoad by Seiichi
94 SATO <ssato@sh.rim.or.jp>, WMMemLoad by Mark Staggs <me@markstaggs.net> and wmapm by Chris D.
95 Faulhaber <jedgar@speck.ml.org> Michael G. Henderson <mghenderson@lanl.gov>.