GPROCMETER3(1)

💖 GPROCMETER3 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for gprocmeter3 ✨ this is the glow-up doc, and she is iconic. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gprocmeter3, procmeter3-gtk1, procmeter3-gtk2 or procmeter3-gtk3 — a user friendly system monitoring program 💅 she watches your system so you don't have to, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gprocmeter3|procmeter3-gtk1|procmeter3-gtk2|procmeter3-gtk3 [-h|--help]
[-w <hint1>[,<hint2>]] [--rc=<filename>] [--...]  [...]  [GTK program options]

like, that's the whole vibe right there 👑 run it, feed it flags, she serves.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. ProcMeter displays one or more pieces of information about the operating system and other resources. literally. most of the info she shows comes straight from the /proc filesystem 🍓

the program is modular and very configurable — meaning she's giving customizable main character energy, you can make her look and act however you want, periodt.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the command line options are described below. pay attention bestie, this is the good part 💖

• -h — provides a help message listing the available outputs 📋 and heads up: this will be different for different computers, depending on the Linux kernel version being used and the hardware/software that is configured. so yes, your friend's -h output and yours are not the same and that's fine, it's giving personalization.
• -w — gives Extended Window Manager hints (EWMH) to change the way that the Window Manager treats the ProcMeter3 window. the implemented hints are: above, below, skip_pager, skip_taskbar, sticky.

you can give more than one hint separated by commas (e. g. -w above,skip_taskbar,sticky), or use -w multiple times (e. g. -w above -w sticky). both slay 💅

• --rc=<filename> — load the specified .procmeterrc file in stead of the searching in the usual places. you're basically telling her "bestie, read this file, not the usual ones" 🎯
• --... — a list of configuration file options that will override the values in the .procmeterrc file. the format of these options is (for example) --resources.background=grey50 which is equivalent to the entry in the .procmeterrc file of

[resources]
background = grey50

all spaces around the equal sign must be removed ⚠️ and if spaces are required in the value on the right hand side then quotes must be used around the entire command line option. no spaces, no exceptions, fr fr.

• ... — a list of names of outputs that are to be displayed. this can include any of the outputs that are available (see the -h option). for the CPU usage is in a module named Statistics with an output named CPU and there are graph (-g), text (-t) and bar (-b) options. to display the CPU usage graph you would use the command line option Statistics.CPU-g 📊
• GTK program options — the standard set of GTK program options. these include --display to set the display to use. ✨
• X window options — the only standard X Windows program option that is accepted is -geometry to set the size of the window. that's the one, the only, the icon 🪟

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🌈 USAGE 🌈

when started, the program will display all of the requested information in a set of output panels (vertically aligned by default). each output can be either a graph, text or bar, and can have a label indicating what it represents. the outputs that are displayed are those from the command line and those from the .procmeterrc configuration file. 🧚

the left mouse button will produce a menu of options that are specific to the output that is selected. the Properties option on this menu will give more detailed information about the origin and meaning of the information that is displayed 👀 when the properties information window is displayed, clicking on another output will change the displayed information. the Move to Above and Move to Below options allow the output to be moved around in the window. selecting one of these options will change the mouse cursor to a hand, use this to select another output. the output that was selected first will be moved to above or below the output that was selected second. 🫶 the Run option on the menu (which may not be available on all outputs) will run the specified command. this may be to display a list of running processes, show the amount of free memory or disk space for example. this menu option is configurable in the .procmeterrc file.

the right mouse button will produce a set of menus that list the modules that are available and for each of them the available set of outputs. there are three types of output, text and two graphical outputs, these are indicated in the sub-menus by icons. selecting one of the outputs from a sub-menu will cause that output to be displayed if it is not already visible. if it is currently displayed then it will be disabled. those that are currently displayed are indicated by a marker to the left in the sub-menu. when the output is added to the window it will be placed at the bottom, use the left mouse button to move it if required. 💜

the middle mouse button will display the sub-menu that is associated with the module for the output that is selected. this is one of sub-menus that are found with the right mouse button. 🖱️

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👑 MODULES 👑

the modules that are available for gprocmeter3, procmeter3-gtk1, procmeter3-gtk2 and gprocmeter3-gtk3 are described in the procmeter3_modules(1) manual page. go read her, she's got the lore 📚

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

procmeterrc(5) procmeter3_modules(1)

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Andrew M. Bishop (c) 1998-2011 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 source + version note for the sign-off: this was the GPROCMETER3(1) page dated December 30, 2011 — go monitor something, you got this 💅✨🦋