---
name: "yacpi"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "yacpi"
version: "3.0.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/yacpi"
---

# yacpi(1)

Yet Another Configuration and Power Interface

## NAME

YACPI - Yet Another Configuration and Power Interface

## SYNOPSIS

**yacpi** \[*OPTION*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Yacpi is an acpi monitoring tool for Linux. It displays various acpi information like battery status, ac status and temperature. This information will be displayed in a user-friendly ncurses interface or as plain-text. It is also able to display current cpu frequency and the kernel scaling governor.

## OPTIONS

- \-h display help

  - \-v display version number and release date

  - \-p display as plain-text only, useful for script output for example

  - \-l loop yacpi output every second.

  - \-n display not found items (display everything you can)

  - \-d specify delay seconds for loop

  -

  - \-b show battery information

  - \-a show ac adapter information

  - \-f show fan information

  - \-t show thermal zone information

  - \-c show cpu frequency

  - \-g show used frequency governor

  - The default prints all available information.

  ## KEYS

- q - quit yacpi

  - r - reload acpi information

  - h - print help screen

  ## REPORTING BUGS

- ACPI information is platform and system depended so please include as much information you can gather about your system like contents of /proc/acpi files, strace output or backtraces/core files.

  ## AUTHOR CONTACT

Yacpi was written by Nico Golde \<nico@ngolde.de\>