xidle(1x)

Usage

xidle [-toolkitoption ...] [-update seconds] [-hl color] [-highlight color] [-jumpscroll pixels] [-label string] [-nolabel]

Overview

The xidle program displays a periodically updating histogram of the cpu idle time.

Options

Xidle accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(1)). The order of the options in unimportant. xidle also accepts the following additional options:

-hl color or -highlight color: This option specifies the color of the scale lines.

-jumpscroll number of pixels: The number of pixels to shift the graph to the left when the graph reaches the right edge of the window. The default value is 1/2 the width of the current window. Smooth scrolling can be achieved by setting it to 1.

-label string: The string to put into the label above the idle display.

-nolabel: If this command line option is specified then no label will be displayed above the idle graph.

-update seconds: This option specifies the interval in seconds at which xidle updates its display. The minimum amount of time allowed between updates is 1 second. The default is 10.

Resources

In addition to the resources available to each of the widgets used by xidle there is one resource defined by the application itself.

showLabel (class Boolean): If False then no label will be displayed.

Widgets

In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which compose xidle. In the notation below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure. The widget class name is given first, followed by the widget instance name.

Xidle  xidle
	Paned  paned
		Label  label
		StripChart  idle

Environment

DISPLAY: to get the default host and display number.

XENVIRONMENT: to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

Files

/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xidle - specifies required resources

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex).

1.2–1.3