Jan 22

parasite with miro on Linux

Posted by Will Kahn-Greene

I saw Chip’s blog entry announcing Parasite yesterday and checked it out. I had problems getting it to work with Miro, but he has since fixed the bug I was bumping into.

I think this will be a really useful tool, so I’m doing a short write up of how to use Parasite with Miro.

  1. Grab Parasite from git compile and install it. Instructions are on the Parasite web-site.
  2. When you run make install It’ll install libgtkparasite.so into /usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/ .
  3. Launch Miro like this: 
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/ GTK_MODULES=parasite ./run.sh

That’ll launch Miro with Parasite showing you the widget hierarchy and widget properties and all that.

There’s a screencast on the Parasite site that shows off more things you can do.

Date January 22nd, 2009 Filed in Miro

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