BUBBLEFISHYMON(1)

🐟 BUBBLEFISHYMON(1) 🐟

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about bubblefishymon — section 1 of the General Commands Manual, aka a lil dockapp that watches your computer like a very invested friend. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

bubblefishymon — a system load meter, but make it ducks and fish 🦆🐠

🌊 SYNOPSIS 🌊

bubblefishymon [options] [program] [program]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this page right here is the short-and-sweet documentation for the bubblefishymon command. ngl, it was written specifically for the Debian distribution because the original program straight up does not have a manual page of its own. 🙈 (we got you though.)

bubblefishymon is a dockapp-style system monitor that keeps an eye on your CPU, memory, swap, load average, and network traffic. it's built on top of wmfishtime(1) and bubblemon, and lowkey the parent code got a serious glow-up here — this version is considerably improved over what it came from. 💅

here's the vibe check on how to read it:

• the higher the water level, the more memory is in use 🌊
• the more profuse the bubbles, the higher your CPU usage 🫧
• the fish represent network traffic direction and speed 🐟

when you move the mouse into the window, the display switches to show the load history — or, if you're holding down the right Shift key, it shows the current memory usage instead. and if you press the right mouse button, the window will freeze in that state and stay frozen until you move the mouse out of the window and then back in. iconic behavior honestly. 🧊

program1 and program2 are the programs to spawn when either the left or middle mouse buttons are pressed, respectively. so like, one for left, one for middle, in that order. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d — disable the swimming duck. 🦆💔
• -u — disable the upside-down duck. 🙃🦆
• -f — disable the fish. 🐟🚫
• -c — disable the CPU meter.
• -m — disable the memory screen.
• -p — use an alternate colour scheme in the memory info screen. 🎨
• -k — display memory and swap statistics in megabytes.
• -n[iface] — fish represents network traffic [on iface]. 🌐🐠
• -t — draw the clock too. ⏰
• -h — display help. 🆘

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

wmbubble(1) bubblemon-gnome1(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was taken and adapted from wmbubble by Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>, and then modified for the Debian system by Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@debian.org>. the original manual page for wmbubble was written by John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org> for the for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). yes bestie, "for the for the" — we're keeping it exactly as the ancestors left it. 😭💀

🌸 that's the whole page, no notes, every duck accounted for.

and that's a wrap! this page was dated September 6, 2002 — shoutout to the Debian crew for the source and version, periodt. 🫶💖✨