<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --> <!-- CreationDate: Wed Jun 9 05:01:29 2004 --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>dbus-monitor</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>dbus-monitor</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br> <a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br> <hr> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>dbus-monitor − debug probe to print message bus messages</p> </td> </table> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>dbus-monitor</b> [−−system | −−session]</p> </td> </table> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>The <i>dbus-monitor</i> 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.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>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 <i>dbus-monitor</i> to monitor the system or session buses respectively. If neither is specified, <i>dbus-monitor</i> monitors the session bus.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>The message bus configuration may keep <i>dbus-monitor</i> from seeing all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a non-root user.</p> </td> </table> <a name="OPTIONS"></a> <h2>OPTIONS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>--system</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Monitor the system message bus.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>--session</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.)</p> </td> </table> <a name="AUTHOR"></a> <h2>AUTHOR</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell.</p> </td> </table> <a name="BUGS"></a> <h2>BUGS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>Please send bug reports to the D-BUS mailing list or bug tracker, see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/</p> </td> </table> <hr> </body> </html>