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# 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.

Figure 1. Gw Main Window

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.

| Update
| `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.

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