5.4. Error Console

5.4. Error Console
	5. Misc dialogs

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Revision $Revision: 1912 $	2006-07-15	j.h

The Error console offers more possibilities than the single “GIMP Message”. This is a log of all errors occuring while GIMP is running. You can save all this log or only a selected part.

5.4.1. Activate Dialog

You can access to this dialog in different ways:

You will find this command in the toolbox menu bar through File → Dialogs → Error Console,
But also from the image menu : Dialogs → Device Status.
Or from the Tab menu in any dialog : Add a dock → Device Status.

5.4.2. The “Error Console” Dialog

Figure 13.77. “Error Console” Dialog window

Clear errors

This button lets you delete all errors in the log.

	Warning
	You can't “undo” this action.

Save all errors

This button lets you save the whole log. You can also select a part of the log (by click-and-dragging the mouse pointer or by using the Shift-Arrow keys key combination) and save only this selected part by pressing the Shift key.

A dialog window Save Error Log to File lets you choose the name and the destination directory of this file:

Figure 13.78. “Save Error Log to file” Dialog window

	Tip
	You will as well find these button actions in the dialog sub-menu by clicking on .