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),