NAME

       gprocmeter3,  procmeter3-gtk1,  procmeter3-gtk2  or  procmeter3-gtk3  - A user friendly system monitoring
       program.

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       ProcMeter  Displays  one  or  more  pieces of information about the operating system and other resources.
       Most of the information that is displayed comes from the /proc filesystem.  The program  is  modular  and
       very configurable.

OPTIONS

       The command line options are described below.

       -h     Provides  a  help  message  listing  the  available outputs.  This will be different for different
              computers depending on the Linux kernel version that is being used and the hardware/software  that
              is configured.

       -w     Gives  Extended  Window  Manager hints (EWMH) to change the way that the Window Manager treats the
              ProcMeter3 window.  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).

       --rc=<filename>
              Load the specified .procmeterrc file in stead of the searching in the usual places.

       --...  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.

       ...    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.

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.

MODULES

       The modules that are available for gprocmeter3, procmeter3-gtk1, procmeter3-gtk2 and gprocmeter3-gtk3 are
       described in the procmeter3_modules(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       procmeterrc(5) procmeter3_modules(1)

AUTHOR

       Andrew M. Bishop (c) 1998-2011

                                                December 30, 2011                                 GPROCMETER3(1)