X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?p=i3%2Fi3;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fi3-dump-log.man;h=455144071c0d81a6322a0a3386ffeb1d786e23ec;hp=8e9094ff0078c285954eb03d38b628e2f58ce920;hb=HEAD;hpb=f88c77945744565c1b637d8fcaab271312bf1a1c diff --git a/man/i3-dump-log.man b/man/i3-dump-log.man index 8e9094ff..45514407 100644 --- a/man/i3-dump-log.man +++ b/man/i3-dump-log.man @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ i3-dump-log(1) ============== -Michael Stapelberg -v4.1, December 2011 +Michael Stapelberg +v4.6, September 2013 == NAME @@ -9,16 +9,19 @@ i3-dump-log - dumps the i3 SHM log == SYNOPSIS -i3-dump-log [-s ] +i3-dump-log [-s ] [-f] == DESCRIPTION Debug versions of i3 automatically use 1% of your RAM (but 25 MiB max) to store -full debug loglevel log output. This is extremely helpful for bugreports and +full debug log output. This is extremely helpful for bugreports and figuring out what is going on, without permanently logging to a file. With i3-dump-log, you can dump the SHM log to stdout. +The -f flag works like tail -f, i.e. the process does not terminate after +dumping the log, but prints new lines as they appear. + == EXAMPLE i3-dump-log | gzip -9 > /tmp/i3-log.gz