From: Ingo Bürk Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:37:37 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Provide instructions on how to debug i3bar X-Git-Tag: 4.11~124^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F1669%2Fhead;p=i3%2Fi3 Provide instructions on how to debug i3bar --- diff --git a/docs/debugging b/docs/debugging index 1253b0c5..400a6b2b 100644 --- a/docs/debugging +++ b/docs/debugging @@ -121,3 +121,19 @@ When debugging with us in IRC, be prepared to use a so called nopaste service such as http://nopaste.info or http://pastebin.com because pasting large amounts of text in IRC sometimes leads to incomplete lines (servers have line length limitations) or flood kicks. + +== Debugging i3bar + +To debug i3bar problems, add +verbose yes+ to all +bar {}+ blocks in your i3 config +and then restart all i3bar instances like this: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +$ killall i3bar +$ for c in $(i3-msg -t get_bar_config | python -c \ + 'import json,sys;print("\n".join(json.load(sys.stdin)))'); do \ + (i3bar --bar_id=$c >i3bar.$c.log 2>&1) & \ + done; +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +There will now be +i3bar.*.log+ files in your current directory that you can provide +in your bug report.