Environment Variables

MonoDevelop allows its behavior the be changed by several Environment variables. Some of those will come in handy when developing new MonoDevelop addins or when using a parallel MonoDevelop install.

Logging

• MONODEVELOP_CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL
  • Default value: UpToWarn
  • Possible Values
    • None
    • All
    • Fatal
    • Error
    • Warn
    • Debug
    • UpToFatal
    • UpToError
    • UpToWarn
    • UpToInfo
    • UpToDebug

This variable allows to change the level of details that are logged into the console.

• MONODEVELOP_CONSOLE_LOG_USE_COLOUR
  • Default value: false
  • Possible Values
    • true
    • false

If true, messages logged in the console will be colored according to their severity.

• MONODEVELOP_LOG_FILE
  • Default value: not set
  • Possible Value: a filename

If set, all log messages will be appended to the specified file.

• MONODEVELOP_FILE_LOG_LEVEL
  • Default value: UpToInfo
  • Possible Values
    • See MONODEVELOP_CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL

This variable allows to change the level of details that are logged using the file logger.

Additional Debug Information

• MONODEVELOP_DISPATCH_DEBUG
  • Default value: not set
  • Possible Value: anything (doesn't matter), eg: "true"

When this variable is set, exceptions generated inside a dispatched method will also log their stacktrace.

Other

• MONO_ADDINS_REGISTRY
  • Default value: ~/.config/MonoDevelop

This variable allows to override the location of the addin repository. This is especially useful when working with a parallel MonoDevelop install, to completely seperate all addins so they can't override each other.