GCPUBAR(1)

📦 version 0.9.5+git20130923.488ab66, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 GCPUBAR(1) — the graphical CPU usage meter, bestie edition 💖

okay so welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for GCPUBAR(1), which is genuinely one of my faves because it's tiny and it slays. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

dzen2-gcpubar — a graphical CPU usage meter. she's little, she's pretty, she tells you how hard your CPU is working. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dzen2-gcpubar [-i interval] [-c count] [-fg color] [-bg color] [-w pixel] [-h pixel] [-nonl]

that's the whole vibe. a command and a lil pile of optional flags. no cap. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

gcpubar is a CPU utilization meter for Linux. it's not out here doing anything shady — it just relies on the existence of the /proc/stat file and generates fully graphical meters that you can view with dzen.

so basically: your kernel keeps receipts in /proc/stat, and this lil icon reads them and turns them into a bar you can actually look at. iconic behavior honestly 😭✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

A summary of options is included below. (this is the whole list, we are NOT skipping any of them, every single one gets its moment 🌈)

  • -i — Update interval in seconds (default 1). and yes bestie, you can use positive values less than 1 for intervals shorter than 1 second. so if you want that zippy sub-second refresh, she's got you 🏃‍♀️💨
  • -c — Terminate after displaying argument to this option (default infinite). so you hand her a number and she counts down to her own exit. default is literally never stopping. eternal. infinite. the way that she just keeps going 🫶
  • -fg — Foreground color 🎀
  • -bg — Background color 🎀
  • -w — Width in piwels. (yes. piwels. that's what the page says. i am not fixing it, i am not touching it, it's canon now 💀 keep it in your heart)
  • -h — Height in pixels 📏
  • -nonl — No new line, don't put '\n' at the end of the bar (default: do print '\n'). so by default she's polite and adds that newline; with -nonl she's like "no, i'm good, no trailing newline for me" 🙈
heads up bestie: that -w one really does say piwels in the manual. i'm just the messenger 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

gcpubar was written by Robert Manea. 🫡

This manual page was written by bertagaz <bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous, so kind, we love a permissive queen 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole page!! go forth, pipe a CPU bar into dzen, live your truth 🌈⭐

cute lil sign-off: this page is from the General Commands Manual, dated Jan 01 2008, and it's the GCPUBAR(1) entry — so if you ever forget, just remember: 2008 called, and it wanted you to know your CPU usage. mwah 💋💅✨

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