hotspot(1)

💖 hotspot(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to hotspot(1), a General Commands Manual situation. it's giving "your perf data but make it fashion." let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hotspot — Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.

periodt. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hotspot [OPTION...][FILE...]

yeah. options first, files after. she's flexible like that 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so hotspot is a KDAB R&D effort — literally a whole mission — to create a standalone GUI tool for performance data. icon behavior.

as of right now, this tool only supports perf output data. that's it. that's the range. but bestie, it's intended to support various other performance data formats in the future. manifesting it fr fr 🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — show help information. the "wait what do I do" button. 🎀
• -v, --version — show version information. the "who even are you" button. ⭐
• --sysroot, <path> — specify path to sysroot, which is used to find libraries. 📚
• --kallsyms, <path> — specify path to kallsyms file, which is used to resolve kernel symbols. 🔍
• --debugPaths, <paths> — colon separated list of paths that contain debug information. 🐛
• --extraLibPaths<paths> — colon separated list of extra paths to find libraries. 🧚
• --appPath<path> — specify path to folder containing the application executable and libraries. 📁
• --arch<path> — architecture to use for unwinding. 🌈

ngl bestie, that's the full list. no secret extra flags hiding at the bottom. i checked. twice. 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

hotspot is written by Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company <info@kdab.com>. 💜

this manual page was written by Yanhao Mo for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout, absolute icon 🌟

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so yeah — that's the whole page, that's the whole lore. written into the books on August 28, 2018, and yeah it still says hotspot(1) at the bottom, bestie, we're keeping the classics 💖✨

now go profile something. slay. 🎀