Logging Categories

More information on debug logging here: wiki/Logging.

This list was obtained using version 1.0 and is shown here as example only.

Always run it yourself to make sure you are using the correct list of categories for the version you have installed.

$ xpra -d help
known logging filters: 
Client:
 * client          : All client code
 * paint           : Client window paint code
 * draw            : Client draw packets
 * cairo           : Cairo paint code used with the GTK3 client
 * opengl          : Client OpenGL rendering
 * info            : About and Session info dialogs
 * launcher        : The client launcher program
General:
 * clipboard       : All clipboard operations
 * notify          : Notification forwarding
 * tray            : System Tray forwarding
 * printing        : Printing
 * file            : File transfers
 * keyboard        : Keyboard mapping and key event handling
 * screen          : Screen and workarea dimension
 * fps             : Frames per second
 * xsettings       : XSettings synchronization
 * dbus            : DBUS calls
 * rpc             : Remote Procedure Calls
 * menu            : Menus
 * events          : System and window events
Window:
 * window          : All window code
 * damage          : Window X11 repaint events
 * geometry        : Window geometry
 * shape           : Window shape forwarding (XShape)
 * focus           : Window focus
 * workspace       : Window workspace synchronization
 * metadata        : Window metadata
 * state           : Window state
 * icon            : Window icons
 * frame           : Window frame
Encoding:
 * codec           : Codec loader and video helper
 * loader          : Pixel compression codec loader
 * video           : Video encoding
 * score           : Video pipeline scoring and selection
 * encoding        : Server side encoding selection and compression
 * scaling         : Picture scaling
 * delta           : Delta pre-compression
 * scroll          : Scrolling detection and compression
 * xor             : XOR delta pre-compression
 * subregion       : Video subregion processing
 * regiondetect    : Video region detection
 * regionrefresh   : Video region refresh
 * refresh         : Refresh of lossy screen updates
 * compress        : Pixel compression (non video)
Codec:
 * csc             : Colourspace conversion codecs
 * cuda            : CUDA device access (nvenc)
 * cython          : Cython CSC module
 * swscale         : swscale CSC module
 * libyuv          : libyuv CSC module
 * decoder         : All decoders
 * encoder         : All encoders
 * avcodec         : avcodec decoder
 * libav           : libav common code (used by swscale, avcodec and ffmpeg)
 * ffmpeg          : ffmpeg encoder
 * pillow          : Pillow encoder and decoder
 * vpx             : libvpx encoder and decoder
 * nvenc           : nvenc encoder (all versions)
 * x264            : libx264 encoder
 * x265            : libx265 encoder
 * webcam          : webcam access
Pointer:
 * mouse           : Mouse motion
 * cursor          : Mouse cursor shape
Misc:
 * gtk             : All GTK code: bindings, client, etc
 * util            : All utility functions
 * gobject         : Command line clients
 * grab            : Window grabs (both keyboard and mouse)
 * test            : Test code
 * verbose         : Very verbose flag
Network:
 * network         : All network code
 * http            : HTTP requests
 * mmap            : mmap transfers
 * protocol        : Packet input and output (formatting, parsing, sending and receiving)
 * websocket       : Websocket layer
 * crypto          : Encryption
 * auth            : Authentication
 * bandwidth       : Bandwidth Detection/Metrics
Server:
 * server          : All server code
 * proxy           : Proxy server
 * shadow          : Shadow server
 * command         : Server control channel
 * timeout         : Server timeouts
 * exec            : Executing commands
 * mdns            : mDNS session publishing
 * stats           : Server statistics
 * xshm            : XShm pixel capture
Sound:
 * sound           : All sound
 * gstreamer       : GStreamer internal messages
 * av-sync         : Audio-video sync
X11:
 * x11             : All X11 code
 * bindings        : X11 Cython bindings
 * core            : X11 core bindings
 * randr           : X11 RandR bindings
 * ximage          : X11 XImage bindings
 * error           : X11 errors
Platform:
 * platform        : All platform support code
 * import          : Platform support import code
 * osx             : Mac OS X platform support code
 * win32           : Microsoft Windows platform support code
 * posix           : Posix platform code