5.3. Error Console
| 5. Misc. Dialogs |

### 5.3. Error Console

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

#### 5.3.1. Activating the Dialog

The “Error Console” dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section Section 2.3, “Dialogs and Docking” for help on manipulating it.

You can access it:

- from an image menu: Windows → Dockable Dialogs → Error Console;

- from the Tab menu in any dockable dialog by clicking on and selecting Add Tab → Error Console.

#### 5.3.2. The “Error Console” Dialog

Figure 14.72. “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 14.73. “Save Error Log to file” Dialog window

| Tip
You will as well find these button actions in the dialog tab menu by clicking on , or in the context menu you get by right-clicking on the dialog window.

5.2. Device Status Dialog |  | 5.4. Export File