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7 dbus-monitor \- debug probe to print message bus messages
11 [\-\-system | \-\-session]
16 The \fIdbus-monitor\fP command is used to monitor messages going
17 through a D-Bus message bus. See
18 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about
22 There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus
23 (installed on many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the
24 per-user-login-session message bus (started each time a user logs in).
25 The \-\-system and \-\-session options direct \fIdbus-monitor\fP to
26 monitor the system or session buses respectively. If neither is
27 specified, \fIdbus-monitor\fP monitors the session bus.
30 In order to get \fIdbus-monitor\fP to see the messages you are interested
31 in, you should specify a set of watch expressions as you would expect to
32 be passed to the \fIdbus_bus_add_watch\fP function.
35 The message bus configuration may keep \fIdbus-monitor\fP from seeing
36 all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a non-root user.
41 Monitor the system message bus.
44 Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.)
47 Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to watch for the gnome typing
51 dbus-monitor "type='signal',sender='org.gnome.TypingMonitor',interface='org.gnome.TypingMonitor'"
56 dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell.
59 Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker,
60 see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/