Section 1 · User commands
pw-dot.1
Package: pipewire-utils
pw-dot
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
NAME
pw-dot − The PipeWire dot graph dump
SYNOPSIS
pw-dot [options]
DESCRIPTION
Create a .dot file of the PipeWire graph.
The .dot file can then be visualized with a tool like dotty or rendered to a PNG file with dot -Tpng pw.dot -o pw.png.
OPTIONS
-r | —remote=NAME
The name the remote instance to connect to. If left unspecified, a connection is made to the default PipeWire instance.
-h | —help
Show help.
—version
Show version information.
-a | —all
Show all object types.
-s | —smart
Show linked objects only.
-d | —detail
Show all object properties.
-o FILE | —output=FILE
Output file name (Default pw.dot). Use - for stdout.
-L | —lr
Lay the graph from left to right, instead of dot’s default top to bottom.
-9 | —90
Lay the graph using 90-degree angles in edges.
AUTHORS
The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>
SEE ALSO
pipewire(1), pw-cli(1), pw-mon(1),