Installation

Running rqt plugins

Run within standard, integrated window (RECOMMENDED)

The best way to run rqt plugins is to use its integrated GUI rqt_gui (see the detailed advantage here) and start the plugin from the 'plugins' menu.

On groovy or higher:

% rqt

On fuerte:

% rosrun rqt_gui rqt_gui

Run each rqt plugin individually

You can also run each rqt plugin standalone by:

$ rqt --standalone rqt_mypkg

(If the search for 'rqt_mypkg' finds more than one plugin, rqt will tell you which ones so you can be more specific.)

If a plugin provides an executable file in its 'scripts' folder it can also be started standalone like this:

$ rosrun rqt_mypkg rqt_mypkg

Some plugins that are provided in rqt's core packages can be run without using rosrun. Currently they are: rqt_bag, rqt_console, rqt_graph, rqt_logger_level, rqt_plot. You can do for example:

$ rqt_bag

Commandline options

When run with -h, available options will be printed. Here are some options that are worth noting:

  -b BINDING, --qt-binding BINDING
                        choose Qt bindings to be used [pyqt|pyside]
  --clear-config        clear the configuration (including all perspectives
                        and plugin settings)
  -m, --multi-process   use separate processes for each plugin instance
                        (currently only supported under X11)
  -s PLUGIN, --standalone PLUGIN
                        start only this plugin (implies -l). To pass arguments
                        to the plugin use --args

  --list-plugins        list available plugins

Debuging rqt_gui with debugger

With gdb:

% gdb python
(gdb) run $YOUR_RQT_GUI_HOMEDIR$/bin/rqt_gui
 :          (usual gdb usage)