Using Gw

Gw can be used to monitor users on your system, and to communicate with them.

Basic usage

Starting Gw opens the Main window, shown in Figure 1.

On launch, Gw displays a listing of all users.

To update the data, click on the Update Information button.

The data displayed includes:

  • USER — user's login name.

  • TTY — the terminal the user is connected through.

  • FROM — The remote host from which the user logged in, or the X display terminal if the user is local.

  • LOGIN@ — The time the user logged in.

  • IDLE — The amount of idle CPU time associated with that login.

  • JCPU — The CPU time used by all processes associated with the login.

  • PCPU — The CPU time associated with the process listed in the WHAT field.

  • WHAT — The command currently being executed by the user.

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Gw does not update its statistics automatically. You must click on the Update Information to have the program display the latest information.

Menus

The menu bar, located at the top of the Main Window, contains the following menus:

File

This menu contains: Quit (Ctrl-Q) which exits the program.

Settings

This menu contains: Preferences (Ctrl-P) which opens a dialog box allowing you to set up a menu executing other commands, such as talk, through Gw's interface to communicate with others users on the machine. For more information on talk, see the talk man page.

Help

This menu contains:

  • Help — shows this manual.

  • About — shows basic information about Gw, such as the author's name and the application version number.