diff -urN dbus-0.22.orig/tools/dbus-monitor.1 dbus-0.22/tools/dbus-monitor.1
--- dbus-0.22.orig/tools/dbus-monitor.1	2004-10-10 20:47:19.906823680 +1000
+++ dbus-0.22/tools/dbus-monitor.1	2004-10-10 20:47:27.791625008 +1000
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 .PP
 .B dbus-monitor
 [\-\-system | \-\-session]
+[watch expressions]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -25,6 +26,11 @@
 monitor the system or session buses respectively.  If neither is
 specified, \fIdbus-monitor\fP monitors the session bus.
 
+.PP
+In order to get \fIdbus-monitor\fP to see the messages you are interested
+in, you should specify a set of watch expressions as you would expect to
+be passed to the \fIdbus_bus_add_watch\fP function.
+
 .PP 
 The message bus configuration may keep \fIdbus-monitor\fP from seeing
 all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a non-root user.
@@ -37,6 +43,15 @@
 .I "--session"
 Monitor the session message bus.  (This is the default.)
 
+.SH EXAMPLE
+Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to watch for the gnome typing
+monitor to say things
+.nf
+
+  dbus-monitor "type='signal',sender='org.gnome.TypingMonitor',interface='org.gnome.TypingMonitor'"
+
+.fi
+
 .SH AUTHOR
 dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell.
 
--- dbus-0.22-1ubuntu1/tools/dbus-monitor.c	2004-08-10 13:03:37.000000000 +1000
+++ dbus-0.22/tools/dbus-monitor.c	2004-10-10 21:38:08.532362152 +1000
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 static void
 usage (char *name, int ecode)
 {
-  fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s [--system | --session]\n", name);
+  fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s [--system | --session] [watch expressions]\n", name);
   exit (ecode);
 }
 
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
   DBusError error;
   DBusBusType type = DBUS_BUS_SESSION;
   GMainLoop *loop;
-  int i;
-
+  int i = 0, j = 0, numFilters = 0;
+  char **filters = NULL;
   for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
     {
       char *arg = argv[i];
@@ -69,14 +69,18 @@
       else if (!strcmp (arg, "--help"))
 	usage (argv[0], 0);
       else if (!strcmp (arg, "--"))
-	break;
+	continue;
       else if (arg[0] == '-')
 	usage (argv[0], 1);
+      else {
+	numFilters++;
+       filters = (char **)realloc(filters, numFilters * sizeof(char *));
+	filters[j] = (char *)malloc((strlen(arg) + 1) * sizeof(char *));
+	snprintf(filters[j], strlen(arg) + 1, "%s", arg);
+	j++;
+      }
     }
 
-  if (argc > 2)
-    usage (argv[0], 1);
-
   loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);
 
   dbus_error_init (&error);
@@ -92,26 +102,45 @@
 
   dbus_connection_setup_with_g_main (connection, NULL);
 
-  dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
-		      "type='signal'",
-		      &error);
-  if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
-    goto lose;
-  dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
-		      "type='method_call'",
-		      &error);
-  if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
-    goto lose;
-  dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
-		      "type='method_return'",
-		      &error);
-  if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
-    goto lose;
-  dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
-		      "type='error'",
-		      &error);
-  if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
-    goto lose;
+  if (numFilters)
+    {
+      for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
+        {
+          dbus_bus_add_match (connection, filters[i], &error);
+          if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
+            {
+              fprintf (stderr, "Failed to setup match \"%s\": %s\n",
+                       filters[i], error.message);
+              dbus_error_free (&error);
+              exit (1);
+            }
+	  free(filters[i]);
+        }
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
+		          "type='signal'",
+		          &error);
+      if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
+        goto lose;
+      dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
+		          "type='method_call'",
+		          &error);
+      if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
+        goto lose;
+      dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
+		          "type='method_return'",
+		          &error);
+      if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
+        goto lose;
+      dbus_bus_add_match (connection,
+		          "type='error'",
+		          &error);
+      if (dbus_error_is_set (&error))
+        goto lose;
+    }
+
   if (!dbus_connection_add_filter (connection, filter_func, NULL, NULL)) {
     fprintf (stderr, "Couldn't add filter!\n");
     exit (1);