gnome-shell has a nice integrated developer tool called “Looking glass”. To bring it up, simply enter “lg” into the command prompt:
Alt-F2 lg
This brings up a translucent overlay with an interactive JavaScript prompt. Among the nice things it offers are tab completion and an object picker.
Here is how it looks:
If you haven’t tried it yet, you really should.
Over the years, many people have asked,
“Can I use Looking glass to debug my GTK+ application ?”.
So far, the answer has always been no. But now, the always awesome Alex Larsson has stepped up and made essentially the same functionality available for the GTK+ Inspector:
As you can see, it has an object picker, tab completion and a result history just like its ‘big brother’. Alex made a little demo video for it.
To avoid a gjs dependency in GTK+ itself and the associated cyclic dependency issues, this is implemented as an extension in a loadable module. The code currently lives on github, in Alex’ gjs-inspector repository.
Enjoy
Cool cool cool! 😀
Awesome. A must for modern, rapid application development models.
to close that window?
this is pretty cool