---
name: "wmapm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wmapm"
version: "3.1.0-4"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wmapm"
---

# wmapm(1)

Dockable APM/Battery Monitor

## NAME

WMAPM - Dockable APM/Battery Monitor

## SYNOPSIS

**wmapm** \[-h\] \[-display display\] \[-C CriticalLevel\] \[-L LowLevel\] \[-b BlinkRate\] \[-B BeepVolume\] \[-A T1 T2\]

## DESCRIPTION

WMAPM is an APM/Battery Monitor.  It is used to visually display and interpret details of APM/Battery status from the system's BIOS via Linux and FreeBSD kernels.

WMAPM is dockable using WindowMaker and AfterStep window-managers; under other window-managers, WMAPM appears as a nicely-sized 64x64 application.

WMAPM provides the following information: battery or AC operation, battery life remaining (both in percentage and bar), time left until battery-depletion (Linux only), charging status, and battery status  (high - green, low - yellow, or critical - red) as reported by the the APM BIOS.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Display list of command-line options.

- **-C CriticalPercent**

  Set Critical threshold to specified (integer) percent.

- **-L LowPercent**

  Set Low threshold to specified (integer) percent.

- **-b BlinkRate**

  Set blink rate of red LED to given (float) value.

- **-B BeepVolume**

  Make wmapm beep at the specified volume (integer between -100 and 100) when critical level is reached.

- **-A Time1 Time2**

  Make wmapm warn all users via wall of Low and Critical status. Time1 and Time2 are times in seconds between updates when in Low and Critical States respectively.

- **-display \[display\]**

  Use the designated X display.

## BUGS

None are known

## AUTHORS

Chris D. Faulhaber \<jedgar@speck.ml.org\> Michael G. Henderson \<mghenderson@lanl.gov\>