FWTS-FRONTEND(1)
π FWTS-FRONTEND-TEXT π
okay bestie, we're in the General Commands Manual section of the fwts-frontend-text page and honestly? this one's a cutie. let's get into it π
β¨ NAME β¨
fwts-frontend-text β it's the text based interface to fwts. literally that's the whole vibe. π¦
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
fwts-frontend-text
no flags, no options, no drama. she just runs. π
π«Ά DESCRIPTION π«Ά
okay so this manual page is a brief lil rundown of the fwts-frontend-text utility, no cap. here's the tea:
fwts-frontend-text fires up a user-friendly interface to the Firmware Test Suite, and the whole point is giving you a simple interface so you can either:
- run all the batch tests in one go, or
- hand-pick individual tests to execute. main character energy, choose-your-own-adventure style β¨
π¨ real talk bestie:fwts-frontend-textshould be run with root privilege, for example usingsudo. don't skip this part.
and here's a cute lil detail β running fwts-frontend-text with the argument noautoshutdown will prevent the system from shutting down after the tests have been executed. so if you're not ready to say bye to your machine, you know what to do π
π EXAMPLES π
execute fwts-frontend-text π«
sudo fwts-frontend-text
execute fwts-frontend-text and disable automatic shutdown π
sudo fwts-frontend-text noautoshutdown
look at her go. iconic behavior, truly. π
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
go read those too, they're part of the lore iykyk π§
π AUTHOR π
fwts-frontend-text was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, and Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof@canonical.com>. π«‘
this manual page was written by Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others β she's generous like that π).
and that's the whole page bestie!! this version is dated 5 February, 2015 and lives in the FWTS-FRONTEND(1) zone β ty for reading, slay, periodt, mwah π π
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: fwts 24.09.00-3.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-only AND LicenseRef-Callaway-LGPLv2 AND (GPL-2.0-only OR Intel-ACPI)
- fedora 44: fwts 24.09.00-3.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-only AND LicenseRef-Callaway-LGPLv2 AND (GPL-2.0-only OR Intel-ACPI)
- fedora 44: fwts 26.07.00-1.fc44 Β· GPL-2.0-only AND LicenseRef-Callaway-LGPLv2 AND (GPL-2.0-only OR Intel-ACPI)
- nixos 26.05: fwts 25.09.00
- nixpkgs unstable: fwts 26.07.00
- opensuse-leap 16.0: fwts 25.03.00-160000.2.2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- opensuse-leap 16.0: fwts 25.03.00-160000.2.2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: fwts-frontend 22.03.00-0ubuntu1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu noble: fwts-frontend 24.01.00-0ubuntu4 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu noble: fwts-frontend 24.01.00-0ubuntu4.1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu questing: fwts-frontend 25.07.00-0ubuntu1
- ubuntu resolute: fwts-frontend 26.03.00-0ubuntu1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: fwts-frontend 26.09.00-0ubuntu1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms