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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
[\-\-system | \-\-session]

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

.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/