Global Configuration Options#

PyQtGraph has several global configuration options that allow you to change its default behavior. These can be accessed using the setConfigOptions() and getConfigOption() functions:

Option	Type	Default
leftButtonPan	bool	True	If True, dragging the left mouse button over a ViewBox causes the view to be panned. If False, then dragging the left mouse button draws a rectangle that the ViewBox will zoom to.
foreground	See `mkColor()`	‘d’	Default foreground color for text, lines, axes, etc.
background	See `mkColor()`	‘k’	Default background for `GraphicsView`.
antialias	bool	False	Enabling antialiasing causes lines to be drawn with smooth edges at the cost of reduced performance.
imageAxisOrder	str	‘col-major’	For ‘row-major’, image data is expected in the standard row-major (row, col) order. For ‘col-major’, image data is expected in reversed column-major (col, row) order. The default is ‘col-major’ for backward compatibility, but this may change in the future.
editorCommand	str or None	None	Command used to invoke code editor from ConsoleWidget.
exitCleanup	bool	True	Attempt to work around some exit crash bugs in PyQt and PySide.
useOpenGL	bool	False	Enable OpenGL in GraphicsView.
useCupy	bool	False	Use cupy to perform calculations on the GPU. Only currently applies to ImageItem and its associated functions.
useNumba	bool	False	Use numba acceleration where implemented.
enableExperimental	bool	False	Enable experimental features (the curious can search for this key in the code). In combination with useOpenGL, this makes PlotCurveItem use PyOpenGL for curve drawing. Caveats Only a very limited subset of the full options of PlotCurveItem is implemented. Single precision is used. This may cause drawing artifacts.
crashWarning	bool	False	If True, print warnings about situations that may result in a crash.
segmentedLineMode	str	‘auto’	For ‘on’, lines are always plotted in segments. For ‘off’, lines are never plotted in segments. For ‘auto’, whether lines are plotted in segments is automatically decided based on pen poperties and whether anti-aliasing is enabled.

pyqtgraph.setConfigOptions(**opts)[source]#

Set global configuration options.

Each keyword argument sets one global option.

pyqtgraph.setConfigOption(opt, value)[source]#

pyqtgraph.getConfigOption(opt)[source]#: Return the value of a single global configuration option.