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WMND(1) General Commands Manual WMND(1) NAME
wmnd - WindowMaker network device monitor SYNOPSIS
wmnd [ -v | -h | [ -d display ] [ -i interface ] [ -w ] [ -b ] ] DESCRIPTION
wmnd(1) is a WindowMaker dock application that shows a graph of the network traffic of the past few minutes, current activity and current and overall send and receive rates. Additionally it can launch any program in response to mouse clicks. There are two modes for the max-meter (the one on top of the graph). Per default it shows the maximum value on the graph. The second mode shows the maximum value of a historical record since wmnd was started. You may left click on max-meter to switch modes, right click on max- meter to hide the max-meter. OPTIONS
-i interface Start showing the status of network interface interface. -w Draw the graph in waveform mode (default is inverse waveform mode). Right clicks cycle through all available modes. -b Scale the values of the maximum and current rate by factors of base 2 instead of the default 10-based scaling. (1K equals 1024 in binary mode, but 1000 in decimal mode.) -h Show summary of options. -d display Draw onto X11 display display. -v Show version of wmnd. USAGE
Active Interface You can cycle in realtime through all available active interfaces by simply left-clicking on the interface name gadget on the upperleft corner of wmnd. The 'lo' interface is an exception, 'lo' ONLY works when invoked from the commandline (wmnd -i lo), lo was mainly built in for testing pur- poses. Device Name By default, wmnd show device name in short term of four characters, for example, the ippp0 will be displayed as ipp0. You can toggle the device name between short and long by right-click on it. Graphic Mode Left-click on the main graphic area to cycle the graphic mode. Max Meter Left-click to toggle the history max or screen max, default is screen max when wmnd is startup. Right-click to hide or display. Byte/Packet Mode Left-click on the letter gadgeted on the right-top corner can switch between the Byte or Packet counter mode. "B" for byte, "p" for packet. User Script Click on the bottom rate meter can invoke the user command defined in resource file .wmndrc. Dragging WMND Be sure to drag WMND on it's outer edges, it's a bit picky due to the large gfx pixmap it keeps. You can also use a keyboard and mouse shortcut (perhaps ALT+left-click) in your window manager to drag it around. FILES
~/.wmndrc User configuration. The format of this file is: # WMND configuration file # middle line in wave mode color md_color=#71e371 # RX/TX color (can be #xxxxxx, or color name from rgb.txt) rx_color=#188a86 tx_color=#00fff2 # refresh between status polling (not graph scroll speed) # numbering in nanoseconds refresh=50000 # bar graph scroll speed (in seconds) this setting also affectsi # the rate and max speed displays. the longer the delay, more # inaccurate these are since the max and rate values are averaged # across this interval scroll=1 # buttons for user scripts # bt1_action=su -c ethereal # bt2_action= # bt3_action= SEE ALSO
X(3x), wmaker(1x). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>. Dec 8, 2000 WMND(1)
