.. title: parasite with miro on Linux
.. slug: parasite_with_miro_on_linux
.. date: 2009-01-22 11:17:09
.. tags: miro

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I saw <a href="http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=292">Chip's blog entry announcing Parasite</a> 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.
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I think this will be a really useful tool, so I'm doing a short write up of how to use <a href="http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/">Parasite</a> with Miro.
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<li>Grab Parasite from git compile and install it.  Instructions are on the Parasite web-site.
<li>When you run <code>make install</code> It'll install libgtkparasite.so into <code>/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/</code> .
<li>Launch Miro like this:
<pre>
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/ GTK_MODULES=parasite ./run.sh
</pre>
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That'll launch Miro with Parasite showing you the widget hierarchy and widget properties and all that.
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There's a <a href="http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/video/parasite-intro.avi">screencast on the Parasite site</a> that shows off more things you can do.
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