libinput-analyze-recording(1) General Commands Manual libinput-analyze-recording(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

libinput-analyze-recording - analyze a device recording

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

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

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

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](#OPTIONS)

[**--help**](#help)

Print help

# [OUTPUT](#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](#LIBINPUT)

Part of the [**libinput(1)**](/man/os/libinput/libinput.1) suite

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Document: libinput-analyze-recording(1) from libinput 1.32.0-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput