.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH POWERTOP 1 "May 12, 2007" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME powertop \- program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops .SH SYNOPSIS .B powertop .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B powertop commands. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBpowertop\fP is a program that shows the power consumption on Intel-based laptops and makes suggestions on how to extend battery lifetime. .br The program is more fully described at http://www.linuxpowertop.org .SH AUTHOR powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven . .PP This manual page was written by Carlo Segre , for the Debian project (but may be used by others).