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waydabber edited this page Apr 23, 2024 · 2 revisions

If you want to debug what BetterDisplay is doing, you can do so by looking at the log entries created by the app.

Note

The article reflects app version v2.0.0

Look at the console

You need to set the following three search criteria in the Console app (it's in the Utilities folder under Applications, included by default in macOS):

  • CATEGORY: missing
  • PROCESS: BetterDisplay (or BetterDummy for v1.x)
  • MESSAGE TYPE: info

Then click Start and activate Now

Make sure that in the menu Action -> Include Info Messages is enabled.

You should see something like this:

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Launch the app in verbose mode

From app version v2.1.3 you can also launch the app from Terminal in verbose mode. Make sure you use an absolute path to launch the app! The log will be sent to the default output (seen in Terminal):

/Applications/BetterDisplay.app/Contents/MacOS/BetterDisplay -v

if you want to mix CLI commands and separate output streams, you can use the -v2e command line option instead of -v to send logs to stderr instead of stdout.

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