Seer uses Qt's logging in a few places. This is for the purpose of debugging issues for a released version. Qt's logging is described in: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qloggingcategory.html Seer has these logging categories: seer.seergdbwidget.debug # The object that communicates with the gdb process seer.gdbmonitor.debug # The object that monitors output from the gdb process ^ ^ ^ ^ ^___^___________The logging channel. Can be debug, warning, critical, info. | | |________|_________________The logging category. It should follow the Seer class name, in lowercase. |__|____________________________Always the seer name. Not all Seer classes have logging programmed. The above list will be updated as needed. There are a few ways to enable logging. The easiest is by the environment variable. Turn on logging like this: % export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=true" % export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=false;seer.gdbwidget.debug=true" % export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=false;seer.gdbmonitor.debug=true" % export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=true;seer.gdbwidget.debug=true" To turn on simple logging of qDebug(), et al, set this: % export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=true" Then start seer. There should be lots of debug output. If qDebug() output is missing filename and lineno information. Like: [16:57:16][unknown:0][default] Some text... Then build with debug turned on. cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..