SGR-METERS(1)

NAME
sgr-meters - GTK based audio meters

SYNOPSIS
sgr-meters

DESCRIPTION

Open the sgr-meters GUI meters.

-a  Show arcs on digital meters.

-A  Do not show arcs on digital meters. [default]

-c  Center the spectrum vertically with the left channel above the line and the right channel below the line. Colors will reflect the frequency for red (low) to purple (high).

-C  Spectrum not centered. Colors will indicate the dominant channel by frequency (red, right, yellow, left). [default]

-f  Show fan style arcs.

-g  Show spectrum graph only - no meters.

-h -?
    Help

-l  Show connecting lines between the lines.

-L  Show connecting lines between the lines. [default]

-m  Show meters only - no spectrum graph

-s <int>
    Audio sample rate [50]

-v  Show legacy vu meters

-w  Show wide frequency (0 Hz to 23 kHz) spectrum.

EXAMPLES

sgr-meters -v
    Show legacy VU meters only.

sgr-meters -m
    Show digital meters only with arcs not filled in.

sgr-meters -ma
    Show digital meters only with arcs filled in.

sgr-meters
    Show digital meters and non-centered spectrum (0 Hz to 12 kHz).

sgr-meters -c
    Show digital meters and centered spectrum (0 Hz to 12 kHz).

sgr-meters -g
    Show non-centered spectrum (0 Hz to 12 kHz) only.

sgr-meters -gc
    Show non-centered spectrum (0 Hz to 12 kHz) only.

sgr-meters -gcL
    Show non-centered spectrum (0 Hz to 12 kHz) only without connecting lines.

sgr-meters -gcLw
    Show non-centered wide spectrum (0 Hz to 23 kHz) only without connecting lines.

FILES
/share/man/man1/sgr-meters.1.gz
/share/applications/sgr-meters.desktop
/local/share/sgr-meters
/local/share/sgr-meters/sgr-meters.png
/local/bin/sgr-meters

AUTHOR
Written by Kevin C. O'Kane.

REPORTING BUGS
SGR coreutils online help: <https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2025 Kevin C. O'Kane

LICENSE
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
zippy(1)

Full documentation <https://https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/>