---
name: "pybootchartgui"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pybootchartgui"
version: "0.14.4-3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pybootchartgui"
---

# pybootchartgui(1)

viewer for boot process performance analysis results

## NAME

pybootchartgui - viewer for boot process performance analysis results

## SYNOPSIS

**pybootchartgui** \[*options*\] *files*...

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **pybootchartgui** command.

**pybootchartgui** is a graphical program to view the data recorded by **bootchart2**.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.t

- **--version**

  Show version of program.

- **-i, --interactive**

  Start in active mode

- **-f** *FORMAT*, **--format=***FORMAT*

  Image format

- **-o** *PATH*, **--output=***PATH*

  Output path (file or directory) where charts are stored

- **-n, --no-prune**

  Do not prune the process tree

- **-q, --quiet**

  Suppress informational messages

- **-t, --boot-time**

  Only display the boot time of the boot in text format (stdout)

- **--very-quiet**

  Suppress all messages except errors

- **--verbose**

  Print all messages

- **--profile**

  Profile rendering of chart (only useful when in batch mode indicated by **-f**)

- **--show-pid**

  Show process ids in the bootchart as '*processname \[pid\]*'

- **--show-all**

  Show all process information in the bootchart as '*/process/path/exe \[pid\] \[args\]*'

- **--crop-after=***PROCESS*

  Crop chart when idle after *PROCESS* is started

- **--annotate=***PROCESS*

  Annotate position where *PROCESS* is started; can be specified multiple times. To create a single annotation when any one of a set of processes is started, use commas to separate the names.

- **--annotate-file=***FILENAME*

  Filename to write annotation points to.

## SEE ALSO

[**bootchart2**(1)](/bootchart2/1.md), [**bootchartd**(1)](/bootchartd/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**pybootchartgui** is part of the **bootchart2** suite.

**bootchart2** was written by Michael Meeks \<michael.meeks@novell.com\>, Anders Norgaard \<anders.norgaard@gmail.com\>, Scott James Remnant \<scott@ubuntu.com\> and Henning Niss \<henningniss@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by David Paleino \<dapal@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others), and is licensed under the same terms of **bootchart2**.