eyduh / pw-viz

Pipewire graph editor written in Rust. WIP⚠️

pw-viz

A simple and elegant, pipewire graph editor

This is still a WIP, node layouting is kinda jank at the moment.

Installation

A compiled binary is available on the releases page.

Building from source

To build pw-viz, you will need to have Rust installed. The recommended way to install Rust is from the official download page, using rustup.

Stable Release

Download and extract the source code to the latest release over on the releases page.

Main branch

Alternatively, you can clone the main branch, although its NOT guaranteed to be stable or bug free.

git clone https://github.com/Ax9D/pw-viz

Dependencies

You'll need a few dependencies installed on your system depending on your distro to build pw-viz.

Arch

pacman -S pipewire pkg-config clang libxcb

Fedora

sudo dnf install pipewire pipewire-devel clang libxcb-devel

Other

If you are building on another distro, you can help fill in this section by opening a pull request.

Build

Next, cd into your source folder and then start the build using:

cargo build --release

Then you can copy the resulting binary(pw-viz) which will be found inside target/release to a directory in your $PATH, like /usr/bin/

Controls

	Description
Left Click + Drag	Move nodes, create links between ports
Alt + Left Click + Drag	Remove links
Middle Mouse + Drag	Pan the graph
Ctrl	Shows pipewire ids of nodes and ports

Zooming is not supported currently

Libraries Used

• pipewire-rs: Rust bindings for PipeWire
• egui-rs: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in pure Rust
• A modified fork of egui-nodes: A egui port of imnodes

Thanks / Alternatives

Pipewire connection code is inspired by helvum's implementation

• helvum: A GTK patchbay for pipewire.

License

pw-viz is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE for more information.