Usage
- 3.1. To View a Log
- 3.2. To Copy Log Lines to the Clipboard
- 3.3. To Hide the Sidebar
- 3.4. To Monitor Logs
- 3.5. To View Log Information
- 3.6. To Close a Log
- 3.7. To Exit System Log Viewer
3.1. To View a Log
To view a log, choose Open Log dialog, select the log that you want to open, then click . Use the scrollbars to scroll through the log.
. In theYou can open as many logs as you want. System Log Viewer displays one log at a time in the System Log Viewer window. Opened logs are listed on the left side of the application window. The log selected in this list is displayed in the main area of the application window. To display another log already opened in System Log Viewer, select it in the log list.
Note that System Log Viewer also lets you open zipped logs (whole filenames end in ".gz").
3.2. To Copy Log Lines to the Clipboard
To copy one or more log lines to the clipboard, just select the lines in the main area and choose the
menu option. If you want to copy the entire log to the clipboard, select it entirely using the menu option, then choose .3.3. To Hide the Sidebar
To hide the left sidebar, which contains the log list and calendar, just select the
menu option.3.4. To Monitor Logs
You can use System Log Viewer to monitor logs. By default, all logs opened in System Log Viewer are monitored for changes. If new lines are added to a log monitored by System Log Viewer, the log name will appear in bold in the log list. If the log is currently displayed in the main area, the new lines will appear automatically at the end of the log and, after five seconds, the log name will turn back to normal in the list.