libinput-analyze-recording(1)

libinput-analyze-recording1

Analyze a device recording

Usage

libinput analyze recording [--help] [options] recording.yml

Overview

The libinput analyze recording tool analyzes a recording made with libinput record and prints a tabular summary of the events in that recording.

This is a debugging tool only, its output may change at any time. Do not rely on the output.

Options

--help

Print help

Output

An example output for a tablet sequence is below.

Time    |      X |      Y | PRESSURE | DISTANCE |   MISC | SERIAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------
  0.000 |   9717 |   6266 |          |       63 |  0x862 | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN
  0.005 |   9709 |        |          |          |        | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN
  0.012 |   9701 |        |          |          |        | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN
  0.020 |   9692 |   6269 |          |          |        | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN
  0.028 |   9680 |   6277 |          |          |        | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN
  0.034 |   9668 |   6279 |          |          |        | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN
  0.042 |   9654 |   6282 |          |          |        | 0x9a805597 | BTN_TOOL_PEN

Libinput

Part of the libinput(1) suite

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–Arch

From libinput-tools 1.32.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.