# A developer tool inspector for GTK+ **GitHub:** https://github.com/chipx86/gtkparasite **Website:** https://chipx86.github.io/gtkparasite **Status:** No longer in development (merged into GTK+) Back when I was a more active developer in the Linux space, I worked a lot with [[GTK+]], and sometimes I needed to get a bit more real-time information on what was happening at a UI level. So I wrote a tool called GTK Parasite. This would inject into a GTK+ application and use the Glib/GObject/GTK+ introspection capabilities to let me inspect all the widgets and their properties live. I could modify them and see how the UI would change. It also allowed for writing [[Python]] scripts that could modify the UI at runtime. This was a pretty popular project, and eventually became part of GTK+.