---
name: "wmforkplop"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wmforkplop"
version: "0.9.3-2.2"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wmforkplop"
---

# wmforkplop(1)

Monitors forking activity and displays top CPU consuming processes.

## NAME

wmforkplop - Monitors forking activity and displays top CPU consuming processes.

## SYNOPSIS

**wmforkplop** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**wmforkplop** is a program that monitors the forking activity  of the kernel and displays a list of the most CPU-consuming processes. Although primarily aimed at Windowmaker, it will run on  any window manager, either as a dockapp or as a standard X11 application.

### Option list:

- **-h**, **--help**

  print this.

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  increase verbosity

- **-V**, **--version**

  print version

**--fontpath** path add a new directory to the font search directory list

-

  default: **--fontpath=**/usr/share/fonts/truetype (and subdirectories)

- **--fontpath=**/usr/share/fonts/ttf

  (and subdirectories)

- **--fontpath=**$HOME/.fonts

  (and subdirectories)

- **--font**

  fontname/size Set the 'small font' name/size in pixel (default: **--smallfont**=*Vera*/6 The font name are case-sensitive, and must correspound to the name of a .ttf file which can be found in one of the fontpaths By default, wmforkplop tries to load the following fonts:

-

  \* Vera/6, DejaVuSansMono/6, Andale\_Mono/6, Verdana/6, Trebuchet\_MS/7

**-c** n, **--colormap**=*n*

-

  select colormap number n (0 \<= n \<= 5)

**-g\[**=*WxH*+x+y\], **--geometry\[**=*WxH*+x+y\]

-

  start in window (i.e. undocked) mode with specified geometry (i.e **-g** 96x32 or **-g** 64x64+0+0)

**--32**,  **--48**,  **--56**

-

  start in a reduced dockapp, for people whose dock is too small too contain 64x64 dockapps

**--no-top**

-

  disable the wmtop feature, you will only see the fork animation.

**--no-fork**

-

  disable the fork animation, you will only see the list of top processes.

**--threshold**=*n*

-

  minimum CPU consumption (%) of a process listed in the top-list (default 3%)

**-u** n, **--proc-update-delay**=*n*

-

  set the delay between two reads of /proc, the default is 150 (milliseconds). Setting a small value gives accurate results, but consumes more CPU as reading /proc is quite expensive.

See /usr/share/doc/wmforkplop/README.gz for more details.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was generated using help2man and edited by Varun Hiremath \<varun@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).