xmbmon(1x)

✨ xmbmon — X MotherBoard Monitor ✨

okay bestie, welcome to xmbmon(1x) 💖 this is the manual page for xmbmon, aka the X MotherBoard Monitor, and it lives in the 1x corner of the manual-verse. it's giving "your motherboard finally learned to talk about its feelings" and honestly? we're obsessed. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xmbmon [options]

real talk first: this manual page only documents the xmbmon command briefly, okay? like, the short-and-sweet version. and here's the tea — this page was written for the Debian distribution specifically, because the original program straight up does not have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome. 💅

now, the lore: recent motherboards have functionalities to monitor the CPU temperatures and the frequency of CPU cooling fans, etc. and like, some programs utilizing these hardware monitoring facilities have been developed — but for the Microsoft Windows platforms 😭 meanwhile, no programs seem to exist for PC-UNIX and the X Windows System platforms. so here we are, filling the void. iconic behavior.

and what does xmbmon actually do? it displays the three temperatures and a core voltage as simple curves. that's it, that's the whole vibe check. 📈✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so here's every single flag, no skips, no skips, periodt:

• -h — show summary of options. the "help me bestie" button. 🆘
• -g — Geometry (Toolkit option), default is "100x140". that's the window size energy. 🪟
• -count — counts in an interval, default is "4".
• -sec — seconds of an interval, default is "20".
• -wsec — total seconds shown, default is "1080" (which is 18 min, iykyk).
• -tmin — min. temperature, default is "10" (Celcius). 🥶
• -tmax — max. temperature, default is "50" (Celcius). 🔥
• -vmin — min. voltage, default is "1.8" (volts). ⚡
• -vmax — max. voltage, default is "2.2" (volts). ⚡
• -tick — ticks in ordinate, default is 3. (ordinate girlies rise up 📐)
• -cltmb, -cltcpu, -cltcs, -clvc — Temp 1-3 + VCore colors, defaults are "blue", "red", "cyan", "green". a whole aesthetic palette, we love to see it 🌈
• -cmtmb, -cmtcpu, -cmtcs — comments of Temp 1-3, defaults are "MB", "CPU", "chip". 🏷️ and heads up: not shown if set to "NOTEMP".
• -cmvc — comment of Vcore, default is "Vc".
• -fahrn — display temperature in Fahrenheit, can be "True" or "False", default is "False". 🇺🇸 vs 🌍 moment
• -label, -labelfont, -labelcolor — for showing label. and listen: no label if null-string. so if you leave it empty, you get nothing, respectfully.
• -method — chips access method (V|S|I|A). see mbmon(1). 👀
• -probe chip — for probing monitor chips, where chip=winbond|wl784|via686|it87|gl52|lm85|lm80|lm90|lm75. go fish, bestie 🎣
• -TyanTigerMP — for Tyan Tiger MP motherboard. special shoutout to that board specifically, it's the main character 🐅
• -debug — to show debug information. when you need the ✨lore✨

🌟 EXEMPLE 🌟

(yes it's spelled that way, and no we will not be fixing it, it's part of the charm 💖)

here's a real example of putting it all together:

xmbmon -tmin 25 -tmax 60 -vmin 1.65 -vmax 1.75

look at those custom bounds. custom min AND max for both temp and voltage. it's giving "I know exactly what my machine should be doing and I will be watching." 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• mbmon(1). that's the sibling, go say hi. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Nicolas Rueff <n.rueff@tuxfamily.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). absolute legend, thank you for your service 🫡💐

and that's a wrap on xmbmon! this whole page comes to you courtesy of XFree86, dated November 10, 2003 — a certified vintage classic, fr fr. go monitor those temps, bestie, your CPU is counting on you 💅✨💖