ASMON(1)

📦 version 0.71, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 ASMON — bestie's system resource monitor 💖

okay so real talk, asmon is the manual for this whole thing, and i'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

asmon — a system resource monitor dockapp for Afterstep and WindowMaker. she's cute, she's functional, she's iconic 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

asmon [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, Asmon is a dockable applet for X11 that monitors system resources. no cap. she's designed for the WindowMaker Dock or the Afterstep Wharf, but bestie she should work with others too, she's flexible like that ✨

she displays CPU usage, load average, memory utilization, pages and swaps. the whole buffet. ate and left no crumbs 💖

okay let's break down her lil face section by section:

  • the upper most section of the applet displays CPU usage on the left, while numerically representing load average on the right 👑
  • the middle bar shows memory utilization divided by ticks into shared, buffers, and cached respectively, with the number of megabytes used represented numerically to the right 🌈
  • the lower bar displays information about swap — graphically on the left, numerically on the right 💙
  • at bottom left there are four LEDs. top to bottom, left to right, they are: pages in, pages out, swap in and swap out. the remainder of the bottom row is dedicated to a graphical bar representing the amount of memory that the X server is using, with the numerical representation to the right — (optionally this section can be used to display uptime) 🎀

ngl it's giving main character energy for a dockapp. obsessed.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -display <display> — specify an alternate X display; see X(1). like, pick a different screen bestie ✨
  • -e <command> — execute <command> on mouseclick. yes, click-to-run. lowkey iconic 🖱️
  • -u — display uptime rather than X memory usage 👑
  • -v — show version information and exit. short and sweet fr fr 💖
  • -h — show summary of options. the classic cry for help flag 🫶

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the WindowMaker or Afterstep documentation and user guides for information about applets and docking. iykyk 📖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>, and later updated by Eric Evans <eevans@sym-link.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. periodt 💜

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it bestie, it's right there 📜

and that's the whole vibe!! this one's a Debian GNU/Linux classic, dated April 6, 2000, and honestly? she's still serving. slay forever, asmon 💖✨🎀🦋

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