Using Logview

Working with Logview

When you first start logview, it opens to /var/log/messages by default. The Open dialog box automatically displays the /var/log directory. You can open as many logs simultaneously as you want, but only one log appears in the logview window at a time.

To display each open log in turn, press the + key to scroll forwards through your logs in the order that you opened them, and the - key to scroll backwards. Use either the scrollbar in the logview window or the PageDn and PageUp keys to scroll through the entries of a log.

The menu bar consists of four menus: File, View, Filter and Help.