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| .\" dbus-monitor manual page. |
| .\" Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. |
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| .TH dbus-monitor 1 |
| .SH NAME |
| dbus-monitor \- debug probe to print message bus messages |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .PP |
| .B dbus-monitor |
| [\-\-system | \-\-session | \-\-address ADDRESS] [\-\-profile | \-\-monitor] |
| [watch expressions] |
| |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| |
| The \fIdbus-monitor\fP command is used to monitor messages going |
| through a D-Bus message bus. See |
| http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about |
| the big picture. |
| |
| .PP |
| There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus |
| (installed on many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the |
| per-user-login-session message bus (started each time a user logs in). |
| The \-\-system and \-\-session options direct \fIdbus-monitor\fP to |
| monitor the system or session buses respectively. If neither is |
| specified, \fIdbus-monitor\fP monitors the session bus. |
| |
| .PP |
| \fIdbus-monitor\fP has two different output modes, the 'classic'-style |
| monitoring mode and profiling mode. The profiling format is a compact |
| format with a single line per message and microsecond-resolution timing |
| information. The \-\-profile and \-\-monitor options select the profiling |
| and monitoring output format respectively. If neither is specified, |
| \fIdbus-monitor\fP uses the monitoring output format. |
| |
| .PP |
| In order to get \fIdbus-monitor\fP to see the messages you are interested |
| in, you should specify a set of watch expressions as you would expect to |
| be passed to the \fIdbus_bus_add_match\fP function. |
| |
| .PP |
| The message bus configuration may keep \fIdbus-monitor\fP from seeing |
| all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a non-root user. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .I "--system" |
| Monitor the system message bus. |
| .TP |
| .I "--session" |
| Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.) |
| .TP |
| .I "--address ADDRESS" |
| Monitor an arbitrary message bus given at ADDRESS. |
| .TP |
| .I "--profile" |
| Use the profiling output format. |
| .TP |
| .I "--monitor" |
| Use the monitoring output format. (This is the default.) |
| |
| .SH EXAMPLE |
| Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to watch for the gnome typing |
| monitor to say things |
| .nf |
| |
| dbus-monitor "type='signal',sender='org.gnome.TypingMonitor',interface='org.gnome.TypingMonitor'" |
| |
| .fi |
| |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell. |
| The profiling output mode was added by Olli Salli. |
| |
| .SH BUGS |
| Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, |
| see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ |
