Eclipse LogCat shows only the first letter from each message

Question

I installed android SDK and plugin on eclipse 4.4, and LogCat shows only the first letter from each message.

an screenshot:

Answer 1

If you use Eclipse Andmore the file for this problem is:

org.eclipse.andmore.ddms.prefs

Answer 2

Here is how to fix it:

1. exit eclipse

2. open up the file

   ~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/com.android.ide.eclipse.ddms.prefs

3. Then cut and paste this in over the existing

   ddms.logcat.automonitor.level=error
   ddms.logcat.automonitor=false
   ddms.logcat.automonitor.userprompt=true
   logcat.view.colsize.Level=54
   eclipse.preferences.version=1
   logcat.view.colsize.Application=169
   logcat.view.colsize.Time=156
   logcat.view.colsize.Tag=124
   logcat.view.colsize.PID=54
   logcat.view.colsize.Text=590
   

4. Restart eclipse

Answer 3

goto your logcat move your bottom scroll bar towards right then on top you can drag your LEVEL section towards left and make room for other section it will surely work

Answer 4

Like @Fabio says, don't leave trailing spaces in any of the property lines.

This is very important!!!

After ensuring that, you can customize the colsize of each col of these(I don't know if there're others, but I've met only these):

logcat.view.colsize.Application
logcat.view.colsize.Level
logcat.view.colsize.PID
logcat.view.colsize.TID
logcat.view.colsize.Tag
logcat.view.colsize.Time
logcat.view.colsize.Text

You don't need to care about the order of these properties because eclipse will sort them according to the alphabet.

I don't know the situations in the other systems or machines, but in my Ubuntu system, the minimum sum of all colsizes is 942. And you can set your colsize beyond that which will cause the horizontal scroll bar to display not 100%.

Hope my advice can help someone:)

Answer 5

The settings that worked for me are the following:

ddms.logcat.auotmonitor.level=error
ddms.logcat.automonitor=true
ddms.logcat.automonitor.userprompt=true
eclipse.preferences.version=1
logcat.view.colsize.Application=169
logcat.view.colsize.Level=54
logcat.view.colsize.PID=54
logcat.view.colsize.Tag=198
logcat.view.colsize.Text=676
logcat.view.colsize.Time=156

~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/com.android.ide.eclipse.ddms.prefs

Answer 6

For me all solutions worked after adding the attribute:

logcat.view.colsize.Text

If it was missing, only the level was shown. This attribute is missing in the marked correct answer.