Xload accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see ). The order of the options in unimportant. xload also accepts the following additional options:

-hl color or -highlight color

This option specifies the color of the scale lines.

-jumpscroll number of pixels

The number of pixels to shift the graph to the left when the graph reaches the right edge of the window. The default value is 1/2 the width of the current window. Smooth scrolling can be achieved by setting it to 1.

-label string

The string to put into the label above the load average.

-nolabel

If this command line option is specified then no label will be displayed above the load graph.

-lights

When specified, this option causes xload to display the current load average by using the keyboard leds; for a load average of n, xload lights the first n keyboard leds. This option turns off the usual screen display.

-scale integer

This option specifies the minimum number of tick marks in the histogram, where one division represents one load average point. If the load goes above this number, xload will create more divisions, but it will never use fewer than this number. The default is 1.