NAME

wmwifi - A dockapp to monitor wireless signal strength.

SYNOPSIS

wmwifi [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the wmwifi command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

WMWiFi is a dockapp that is supported by X window managers such as Window Maker, AfterStep, BlackBox, and Enlightenment. It monitors all wireless network interfaces on your machine.

The main screen displays the link (signal) strength between the currently selected card and your wireless access point as a percentage, and has an LCD look-alike user interface.

The second screen diplays extended stats, which are: the current rate/speed in megabits, the noise (in dBm), the level (in dBm), and the actual link amount.

Both screens toggle the interface name and the current associated access point at the top every 5 seconds.

The back-light may be turned on/off by clicking the mouse button over the application.

Mouse1 activates/deactivates the scrolling of the Wireless Interface Name / ESSID.

Mouse2 switches the current wireless network interface.

Mouse3 switches between standard and extended modes.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-d, --display <string>

Attempt to open a window on the named X display. In the absence of this option, the display specified by the DISPLAY environment variable is used.

-bl, --backlight

turn on back-light.

-lc, --light-color <color>

back-light color. (default: rgb:6E/C6/3B)

-fg, --foreground-color <color>

back-light color. (default: rgb:00/00/00)

-bg, --background-color <color>

back-light color. (default: rgb:8E/96/8A)

-hc, --highlight-color <color>

back-light color. (default: rgb:76/7C/6F)

-mt, --midtone-color <color>

back-light color. (default: rgb:44/44/44)

-tc, --theme-classic

Theme: use <= 0.5 style interface theme

-tn, --theme-new

Theme: use updated (new) theme

-ts, --theme-snow

Theme: use snow theme

-i, --interval <integer>

sets update interval (in seconds)

-h, --help

show help text and exit.

-v, --version

show program version and exit.

-w, --windowed

run the application in windowed mode

-bw, --broken-wm

activate broken window manager fix

-l, --learn

attempt max signal quality autodetection/learning for broken wireless drivers (ndiswrapper, prism54). *Note* this may break the max signal quality.

+s, --scroll-on

scroll the interface name and essid

-s, --scroll-off

use <= 0.5 style interface and essid (i.e. don't scroll)

AUTHOR

wmwifi was written by Jess Mahan <jess@digitalssg.net>.

This manual page was written by Jess Mahan <jess@digitalssg.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).