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5 .TH WMWIFI 1 "March 07, 2006"
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19 wmwifi \- A dockapp to monitor wireless signal strength.
23 This manual page documents briefly the
26 This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
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31 \fBWMWiFi\fP is a dockapp that is supported by X window managers such as
32 Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and Enlightenment. It monitors all
33 wireless network interfaces on your machine.
35 The main screen displays the link (signal) strength between the currently
36 selected card and your wireless access point as a percentage, and has an
37 LCD look-alike user interface.
39 The second screen diplays extended stats, which are:
40 the current rate/speed in megabits, the noise (in dBm), the level (in dBm),
41 and the actual link amount.
43 Both screens toggle the interface name and the current associated access
44 point at the top every 5 seconds.
46 The back-light may be turned on/off by clicking the mouse
47 button over the application.
49 Mouse1 activates/deactivates the scrolling of the Wireless Interface Name / ESSID.
51 Mouse2 switches the current wireless network interface.
53 Mouse3 switches between standard and extended modes.
56 This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
57 starting with two dashes (`\-'). A summary of options is included below.
59 .B \-d, \-\-display <string>
60 Attempt to open a window on the named X display. In the absence of this option,
61 the display specified by the
63 environment variable is used.
65 .B \-bl, \-\-backlight
68 .B \-lc, \-\-light-color <color>
69 back-light color. (default: rgb:6E/C6/3B)
71 .B \-fg, \-\-foreground-color <color>
72 back-light color. (default: rgb:00/00/00)
74 .B \-bg, \-\-background-color <color>
75 back-light color. (default: rgb:8E/96/8A)
77 .B \-hc, \-\-highlight-color <color>
78 back-light color. (default: rgb:76/7C/6F)
80 .B \-mt, \-\-midtone-color <color>
81 back-light color. (default: rgb:44/44/44)
83 .B \-tc, \-\-theme-classic
84 Theme: use <= 0.5 style interface theme
86 .B \-tn, \-\-theme-new
87 Theme: use updated (new) theme
89 .B \-ts, \-\-theme-snow
92 .B \-i, \-\-interval <integer>
93 sets update interval (in seconds)
96 show help text and exit.
99 show program version and exit.
102 run the application in windowed mode
104 .B \-bw, \-\-broken-wm
105 activate broken window manager fix
108 attempt max signal quality autodetection/learning for broken wireless drivers
109 (ndiswrapper, prism54).
110 *Note* this may break the max signal quality.
112 .B \\+s, \-\-scroll-on
113 scroll the interface name and essid
115 .B \\-s, \-\-scroll-off
116 use <= 0.5 style interface and essid (i.e. don't scroll)
120 wmwifi was written by Jess Mahan <jess@digitalssg.net>.
122 This manual page was written by Jess Mahan <jess@digitalssg.net>,
123 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).