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Use GNOME Looking Glass for debugging

by Martin Fitzpatrick

Looking Glass is GNOME Shell's integrated inspector tool and JavaScript console useful for debugging.

Open the run prompt by pressing Alt+F2

Enter lg to start Looking Glass

Commands can be entered directly at the prompt e.g. global.get_window_actors()

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