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Looking Glass is GNOME Shell's integrated debugger and inspector tool. It aims to be the Firebug of GNOME Shell.

Looking Glass is GNOME Shell's integrated debugger and inspector tool. It aims to be the Firebug of GNOME Shell.

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How to work GNOME's Looking Glass?

I want to step into extension development for Gnome Shell, but I can't seem to understand how I do a few tasks in Looking Glass lg to actually debug my stuff. When I type global.log("hi"); into LG, it throws me back r(...) = undefined. Why? When I…
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Get window pid in Looking Glass extenstion of Gnome Shell

Looking Glass debugger of Gnome Shell provides Windows tab that lists all opened windows. Instance of such windows can be referenced from Evaluator tab after clicking, for example: [object instance proxy GType:MetaWindowX11 ...] How can be process…
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