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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

.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).
Right now, \fIdbus-monitor\fP is hardcoded to only work with the
systemwide message bus. It should really be extended to have a
\-\-session command line option as with \fIdbus-send\fP.

.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
No options are currently supported.

.SH AUTHOR
dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell.

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