.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
.B dbus-monitor
-[\-\-system]
+[\-\-system | \-\-session] [\-\-profile | \-\-monitor]
+[watch expressions]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The \fIdbus-monitor\fP command is used to monitor messages going
-through a D-BUS message bus. See
+through a D-Bus message bus. See
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about
the big picture.
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).
-\fIdbus-monitor\fP by default monitors the session bus; to monitor the
-system bus, specify \-\-system.
+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_watch\fP function.
.PP
The message bus configuration may keep \fIdbus-monitor\fP from seeing
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I "--system"
-Use the system message bus instead of the session bus.
+Monitor the system message bus.
+.TP
+.I "--session"
+Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.)
+.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,
+Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker,
see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/