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dotty — A customizable interactive graph editor for the X Window System. Note: This tool has been deprecated

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Problem

How to use the dotty command: A customizable interactive graph editor for the X Window System. Note: This tool has been deprecated, but this entry is retained to aid anyone still using it. More information: <https://graphviz.org/pdf/dotty.1.pdf>.

Solution

dotty — A customizable interactive graph editor for the X Window System. Note: This tool has been deprecated, but this entry is retained to aid anyone still using it. More information: <https://graphviz.org/pdf/dotty.1.pdf>.

Open a graph file (.gv or .dot) in the Dotty editor:

dotty {{path/to/graph.gv}}

Start Dotty with the [V]ersion information displayed:

dotty -V

Set the [l]ayout [m]ode to synchronous or asynchronous:

dotty -lm {{sync|async}} {{path/to/graph.gv}}

Set the m[e]ssage verbosity [l]evel (0 for minimal, 1 for detailed):

dotty -el {{0|1}} {{path/to/graph.gv}}

Code Snippets

Open a graph file (`.gv` or `.dot`) in the Dotty editor

dotty {{path/to/graph.gv}}

Start Dotty with the [V]ersion information displayed

dotty -V

Set the [l]ayout [m]ode to synchronous or asynchronous

dotty -lm {{sync|async}} {{path/to/graph.gv}}

Set the m[e]ssage verbosity [l]evel (`0` for minimal, `1` for detailed)

dotty -el {{0|1}} {{path/to/graph.gv}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/dotty

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