HOT-BABE(1)

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General Commands Manual · hot-babe

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about a little program called hot-babe. it's a tiny graphical utility that shows you what your system is doing in a... very special way. no cap. let's get into it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

hot-babe — it's a small graphical utility that displays the system activity in a very special way. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hot-babe [options]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This manual page documents briefly the hot-babe command. And when I say briefly, I mean it — but I'm gonna give you the whole vibe anyway, because you deserve it. 💅

hot-babe is a small graphical utility which displays the system activity in a very special way. Here's the tea: when the CPU is idle, it displays a dressed girl. And when the activity goes up — as the temperature increases — the girl begins to undress, and she finishes totally naked when the system activity reaches 100%. 😳

Of course, if you can be shocked by nudity, don't use it! like genuinely, fr fr, this one is not for everyone and that's okay.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

As for now, hot-babe supports a few command-line options. Not a ton, but they all eat:

• -h, --help — display a small help message and exit. short, sweet, iconic.
• -t, --threshold n — ensure that only the first picture (totally dressed girl) as long as the system activity is below n%. keeps things modest, we love a boundary. 🫶
• -d, --delay n — update the display every n milliseconds. faster = more chaotic, slower = chill.
• -i, --incremental — ponder every sample with time. the result is a somewhat smoother animation, and the cpu has to be 100% for a long time before the girl will be totally naked, and the cpu has to be at 0% for a long time for the girl to dress totally. slow burn energy, honestly. 🔥
• -N, --noNice — Don't consider reniced processes. This is usefull if you use seti@home or distributed.net, which always eat almost all the CPU. (yes, that typo is in the original, I'm keeping it, it's part of the lore.) 💀
• -n, --nice n — Put the hot-babe process in nice n.
• --dir — Directory. give the directory where hot-babe must load the pictures. 🖼️
• --geometry — Use the specified geometry (only position is supported {+|-}x{+|x}y).
• -v, --version — Show version and exit. the classic.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• share/hot-babe/ ./hot-babe/ — Default directory of hot-babes pictures. It can be either absolute path, relative, relative to share/hot-babe/ directory or relative to ~/.hot-babe/ directory. It contains the themes that can be used. so many options, so much freedom. 🌈

Note: Each pictures subdirectory must contain a file named descr which gives some info to the hot-babe process. The first line gives the number of pictures to use, and then the name of the pictures, one per line. don't skip this part bestie, it's literally load-bearing. 😭

Here is an example:

5
hb01_4.png
hb01_3.png
hb01_2.png
hb01_1.png
hb01_0.png

• ~/.hot-babe/config — User configuration file. Put any possible long option. Empty lines and whatever after a # are ignored. comment out your secrets, live your truth. 🙈

Here is an example:

#threshold 30
incremental
#noNice
#nice 5
#delay 100
#dir hb01
#geometry +0-0

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This page has been updated by Cyprien <cyprien33@laposte.net> — thank you for your service, icon. 🫡

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! ✨ this one came from the General Commands Manual, dated December 4, 2004, and it's HOT-BABE(1) — so if you ever need to find it again, that's the name, no cap. go forth, monitor your CPU, and slay. 💖🎀🦋🌸💅🫶