Installing Bicimon on Manjaro

Bicimon is a tool for monitoring your computer's power usage. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of installing Bicimon on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

Before installing Bicimon, make sure that your Manjaro system is up to date.

sudo pacman -Syu

Installing Dependencies

Bicimon requires a few dependencies to be installed on your system. Open the terminal and run the following command to install the dependencies.

sudo pacman -S git libx11-devel libxrandr-devel

Cloning the Repository

To install Bicimon, we first need to clone the repository from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/knrdl/bicimon.git

Building Bicimon

Now that the repository has been cloned, we can build Bicimon by running the following command inside the cloned directory.

cd bicimon
make

Running Bicimon

Once Bicimon has been built, you can run it by executing the following command.

sudo ./bicimon

This will start Bicimon and it will start monitoring your computer's power usage.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps of installing Bicimon on Manjaro. Bicimon is a useful tool for monitoring your computer's power usage and can help you identify power-hungry applications. Keep in mind that Bicimon is an experimental tool and may not work perfectly on all systems.