wavemonrc(5)

📦
version 0.9.7 · 2 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu stonking

🌸 wavemonrc — the manual page (section 5) 💖

ok so this is the manpage for wavemonrc, aka the config file that lives in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wavemon/wavemonrc and it's part of the User Manuals set. she's the glow-up guide for wavemon(1), bestie. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wavemon/wavemonrc — the wavemon configuration file 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

wavemonrc is the per-user configuration file for wavemon(1). This page walks through every single one of its individual configuration options, no skips, no fast-forwarding. ⭐

Every option here maps to a config item on the Preferences screen (that's the F7 key, iykyk). The on-screen name of each one is shown in parentheses, so you can match what you read here to what you see there. 👑

🫶 The options, one by one

  • interface = <ifname> — (Interface) Selects the wireless interface to use. that's the one, the main character interface. 💖
  • cisco_mac = (on|off) — (Cisco-style MAC addresses) If enabled, display MAC addresses using lower-case hex digits separated by dots rather than colons. it's giving very cisco of you. 🎀
  • scan_filter_band = (2.4ghz|5ghz|both) — (Scan band selection) Filter bands in the scan window: 2.4ghz (2.4GHz only), 5ghz (5GHz only), or both (show both bands). pick your fighter. 🌈
  • scan_hidden_essids = (on|off) — (Scan hidden ESSIDs) Whether the scan window should include hidden ESSIDs. the shy ones. 🙈
  • sort_order = (channel|essid|mac|signal|open|chan/sig|open/sig) — (Scan sort type) Determines the ordering used in the scan window: channel sorts by channel number, essid by access point name, mac by MAC address, signal by signal strength, and open by openness. The combined variants chan/sig and open/sig sort first by channel/openness and then by signal strength. It also affects the status line at the bottom: normally the most crowded channels are listed, sorting by channel in descending order switches to least crowded ones instead. lowkey a whole personality trait for your scan window. 🔥
  • sort_ascending = (on|off) — (Scan sort direction) Sets the direction of the sort_order: ascending (on) or descending (off). ⬆️⬇️
  • stat_updates = <n> — (Statistics updates) Time interval for polling new statistics (including scan refresh). Range: 10..4000ms. ⏱️
  • lhist_slot_size = <n> — (Histogram update cycles) Number of samples used per each histogram slot. For example, if the stat_updates interval is 500ms and the histogram slot size is 4, the histogram is moved one slot further every 2 seconds. Range: 1..64. math is mathing ✨
  • meter_smoothness = <n> — (Level meter smoothness) Determines the responsiveness of level meters, tracking the moving average rather than following each new sample. The given value specifies the percentage of the history (the 'inertia') of preceding samples. A value of 0 disables this option. Range: 0..99%. so smooth, so unbothered 💅
  • info_updates = <n> — (Dynamic info updates) Sets refresh rate for dynamic device parameters (e.g. bitrate) and the refresh interval for the Scan window (F3). Range: 1..60s. 🌸
  • override_auto_scale = (on|off) — (Override scale autodetect) Override the auto-scaling of the bar graphs and histogram, allowing you to set your own scales. you're the boss now, bestie. 👑
  • min_signal_level, max_signal_level = <n> — (Minimum signal level, Maximum signal level) Set the left and right boundaries of the signal level scales. Ranges: -100..-39 (minimum) and -40..-10dBm (maximum). ⭐
  • transparent_bg = (on|off) — (Use a transparent background) Use a transparent background instead of black. This is enabled by default and can only be turned off via the startup file. no cap, she's translucent by default and you can only change that from the startup file. 🧚
  • startup_screen = (info|histogram|scan window) — (Startup screen) Which of the screens appears at program startup. choose your opening scene. 🎬

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Jan Morgenstern <jan@jm-music.de>. legend behaviour, honestly. 🫶

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Open an issue on https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon/issues. don't be shy, they wanna hear it. 🐛

fr fr, that's the whole page. every flag, every range, every default — nothing got left on read. 💖

and that's a wrap on the Linux wavemonrc(5) page, dated September 2021 🌈 — ty for coming to my ted talk, go configure your wifi bestie 💅✨

📦 where this page comes from