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pw-top — View the PipeWire nodes and devices statistics in real-time. See also: `pipewire`, `pw-dump`, `pw-cl

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Problem

How to use the pw-top command: View the PipeWire nodes and devices statistics in real-time. See also: pipewire, pw-dump, pw-cli, pw-profiler. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-top_1.html>.

Solution

pw-top — View the PipeWire nodes and devices statistics in real-time. See also: pipewire, pw-dump, pw-cli, pw-profiler. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-top_1.html>.

Display an interactive view of PipeWire nodes and devices:

pw-top

Monitor a remote instance:

pw-top {{[-r|--remote]}} {{remote_name}}

Print information periodically instead of running in interactive mode:

pw-top {{[-b|--batch-mode]}}

Print information periodically for a specific number of times:

pw-top {{[-b|--batch-mode]}} {{[-n|--iterations]}} {{3}}

Code Snippets

Display an interactive view of PipeWire nodes and devices

pw-top

Monitor a remote instance

pw-top {{[-r|--remote]}} {{remote_name}}

Print information periodically instead of running in interactive mode

pw-top {{[-b|--batch-mode]}}

Print information periodically for a specific number of times

pw-top {{[-b|--batch-mode]}} {{[-n|--iterations]}} {{3}}

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