WMMEMLOAD(1)

💖 WMMEMLOAD 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for wmmemload, and it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual. it's a little dockapp that keeps an eye on your memory and your swap, and honestly? it's iconic. let's get into it. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wmmemload — a dockapp to monitor memory/swap usages 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wmmemload [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents, briefly, the wmmemload command. short and sweet, we love that for us.

WMMemLoad is a program to monitor memory/swap usages. it's a dockapp, which means it's supported by X window managers like Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and Enlightenment. yes, all of them. it's got range. 👑

the current memory usage shows up in the top half. the swap usage lives in the bottom half. and it has an LCD look-alike user interface, which is literally so cute, it's giving vintage alarm clock in the best way. 🎀

the back-light can be turned on/off by clicking the mouse button over the appliacation — yes, that's spelled "appliacation" in the original, i'm not fixing it, it's part of the lore. 🙈

and here's the fun part: if the usage hits a certain threshold, an alarm-mode will alert you by turning on the back-light. it's not screaming at you, it's just ✨glowing✨. your dockapp is doing main character energy. 💀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of options is included below, and no, we are not skipping any, there's only 13 and each one is precious. ⭐

• -d, --display <string> — attempt to open a window on the named X display. in the absence of this option, the display specified by the DISPLAY environment variable is used. 🖥️
• -bl, --backlight — turn on back-light. glow up, bestie. ✨
• -lc, --light-color <color> — back-light color. (rgb:6E/C6/3B is default) 🌈
• -i, --interval <number> — number of secs between updates. (1 is default) ⏱️
• -b, --ignore-buffers — ignore buffers. (GNU/Linux) 🐧
• -c, --ignore-cached — ignore cached pages. (GNU/Linux / FreeBSD) 💾
• -wr, --ignore-wired — ignore wired pages. (FreeBSD) 😤
• -h, --help — show help text and exit. 🆘
• -v, --version — show program version and exit. 🏷️
• -w, --windowed — run the application in windowed mode 🪟
• -bw, --broken-wm — activate broken window manager fix 🔧
• -am, --alarm-mem <percentage> — activate alarm mode of memory. <percentage> is threshold of percentage from 0 to 100. (90 is default) 🚨
• -as, --alarm-swap <percentage> — activate alarm mode of swap. <percentage> is threshold of percentage from 0 to 100. (50 is default) 🚨

ngl bestie, those percentage thresholds? they're the whole point of the glow-up. set -am and -as somewhere sensible and your dockapp will quietly vibe until things get real. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

WMMemLoad was assembled by Mark Staggs <me@markstaggs.net>. it is largely based on WMMemMon and WMCPULoad by Seiichi SATO <ssato@sh.rim.or.jp>. shoutout to the ancestors fr fr. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie! this lil gem is dated April 3, 2002, comes from the General Commands Manual as WMMEMLOAD(1), and honestly? it ate. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅