dbus-monitor manual page.
 Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc.

 dbus-monitor 1
 NAME
dbus-monitor - debug probe to print message bus messages

 SYNOPSIS

 dbus-monitor [--system | --session | --address ADDRESS] [--profile | --monitor]
[watch expressions]


 DESCRIPTION

The dbus-monitor 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.



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 dbus-monitor to
monitor the system or session buses respectively. If neither is
specified, dbus-monitor monitors the session bus.



dbus-monitor 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,
dbus-monitor uses the monitoring output format.



In order to get dbus-monitor 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 dbus_bus_add_match function.


 
The message bus configuration may keep dbus-monitor from seeing
all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a non-root user.


 OPTIONS

 "--system" Monitor the system message bus.


 "--session" Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.)


 "--address ADDRESS" Monitor an arbitrary message bus given at ADDRESS.


 "--profile" Use the profiling output format.


 "--monitor" Use the monitoring output format. (This is the default.)


 EXAMPLE
Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to watch for the gnome typing
monitor to say things


 dbus-monitor "type='signal',sender='org.gnome.TypingMonitor',interface='org.gnome.TypingMonitor'"





 AUTHOR
dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell.
The profiling output mode was added by Olli Salli.


 BUGS
Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker,
see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/