CPU-X(1)

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💖 CPU-X(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about cpu-x — the X11 tool that gathers info on your CPU, motherboard and, like, so much more ✨ (and yes, that's the General Commands Manual section of the manual, we're doing this properly 💅)

🌸 NAME 🌸

cpu-x — an X11 tool that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more... 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cpu-x [DISPLAY] [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

CPU-X is giving CPU-Z for MS Windows energy, but make it ours. 💖

You can run it in graphical mode using GTK, or in text-based mode using NCurses. And there's also a dump mode you can hit straight from the command line, no cap. 🎀

🌈 DISPLAY 🌈

these are the options you can use as DISPLAY, bestie — they pick your whole vibe:

  • -G, --gtk — starts the graphical user interface (GUI). this is the default, so if you say nothing, this is what you get 👑
  • -N, --ncurses — starts the text-based user interface (TUI). terminal girlies rise 🖥️
  • -D, --dump — dumps ALL the data onto standard output and then dips out (exits). 🗑️✨
  • -M, --dmidecode — runs the embedded command dmidecode and exits.
  • -B, --bandwidth — runs the embedded command bandwidth and exits.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

and these are the ones you use as OPTIONS — mix and match, go feral:

  • -r, --refresh — sets a custom time between two refreshes, in seconds. ⏱️
  • -t, --tab — sets the default tab (an integer, babes).
  • -p, --type — selects which core type to monitor (integer).
  • -c, --core — selects which CPU core to monitor (integer).
  • -b, --cachetest — sets a custom bandwidth test for CPU caches speed (integer).
  • -g, --gpu — selects the default graphic card (integer).
  • -d, --daemon — starts and connects to the daemon.
  • -v, --verbose — verbose output, so it tells you everything 🗣️
  • -h, --help — prints help and exits.
  • -V, --version — prints version and exits.
  • --cpuid-decimal — prints CPUID values in decimal (the default is hexadecimal).
  • --nocolor — disables colored output. (sad, but valid 😭)
  • -d, --debug — prints information for debugging.
  • --issue-fmt — prints the required information to paste into an issue. absolute lifesaver for bug reports 🫶
  • --keymap — sets key mapping for NCurses mode: a[rrows] | e[macs] | i[nverted-T] | v[im]
⚠️ bestie, look closely — -d shows up twice up there: once for --daemon, once for --debug. I'm not editing the page, I'm just the messenger. 💀 that's literally what the manual says, so that's what you get.

🧚 Environment variables with influence on runtime functionality

these lil guys change how it runs at runtime, iykyk:

  • CPUX_ARGS — add default command line arguments.
  • CPUX_BCLK — enforce the bus clock.
  • CPUX_FORCE_FREQ_FALLBACK — ignore CPU frequency reported by libcpuid.
  • CPUX_CPUID_RAW — read CPUID raw data from a given file.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this man page was written by Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> for the Debian project — but maybe used by others, which is honestly so generous of him. 🫶

and that's the whole thing, bestie!! 🌟 this page is from the CPU-X(1) manual, dated Oct 01, 2019 — yeah she's an older icon but she still ate. 💅✨ go gather some info, you're the main character now. 👑💖

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