I3-DUMP-LOG(1) i3 Manual I3-DUMP-LOG(1)

NAME

i3-dump-log - dumps the i3 SHM log

SYNOPSIS

i3-dump-log [-s <socketpath>] [-f]

DESCRIPTION

Debug versions of i3 automatically use 1% of your RAM (but 25 MiB
max) to store 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

SEE ALSO

i3(1)

AUTHOR

Michael Stapelberg and contributors

i3 4.24 11/06/2024 I3-DUMP-LOG(1)