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To run plugins
Available rqt plugins

To run plugins

Running any rqt plugins is easily done by just running:

$ rqt

and choose the plugins you want from the GUI that appears. Please see rqt/UserGuide#Running_rqt_plugins for more detail about how to run rqt plugins.

If you're on fuerte:

$ rosrun rqt_gui rqt_gui

and open plugins you want from "Plugins" tab.

Available rqt plugins

Supported plugins

These are the manually maintained list of rqt plugins provided by ROS' desktop-full debian package. For the full, automatically generated list, see the corresponding metapackages.

ROS backend tools (rqt_common_plugins)

See rqt_common_plugins metapackage for the full list.

Group: Actions

Action Type Browser

Python

Viewer to browse the ROS action available on the system..

Group: Configuration

Launch (experimental)	`Python`	Interface to easily edit/save/launch robot launch files.
Dynamic Reconfigure	`Python`	Parameter editor using `dynamic_reconfigure`. Integration with `rosbag` is planned too (Ref. related QA thread).

Group: Introspection

Node Graph	`Python`	Visualizes the ROS computation graph.
Package Graph	`Python`	Visualizes the ROS dependency graph of packages and stacks.
Top / Process Monitor	`Python`	A process monitoring utility similar to Ubuntu's System Monitor, which only shows info about ROS processes.

Group: Logging

Bag	`Python`	Viewing and playing back ROS bag files (similar functionality to `rxbag`).
Console	`Python`	Displaying and filtering ROS messages (similar functionality to `rxconsole`).
Logger Level	`Python`	Configuring the logger level of ROS nodes (similar functionality to `rxloggerlevel`).

Group: Miscellaneous Tools

Python Console	`Python`	Interactive Python console.
Shell	`Python`	Interactive command line shell using an embedded XTerm or a Python based shell.
Webtool integration	`Python`	Displays webpages within a plugin frame using QtWebkit. Other plugins can import this plugin to allow webbased tools to snap-in to a rosgui pane.

Group: Services

Service Caller	`Python`	Calls arbitrary services and shows the response (similar functionality to command-line tool `rosservice call`).
Service Type Browser	`Python`	Viewer to introspect the ROS services available on the system. Intended as a graphical alternative to the rossrv console command.

Group: Topics

Message Publisher	`Python`	Publishes arbitrary messages with fixed or computed field values (similar functionality to command-line tool `rostopic pub`).
Message Type Browser	`Python`	Viewer to browse the ROS messages available on the system. Intended as a graphical alternative to the rosmsg console command.
Topic Monitor	`Python`	Displays debug information about ROS topics including publishers, subscribers, publishing rate, and ROS Messages (similar functionality to command-line tool `rostopic *`).

Group: Visualization

Image View	`C++`	Displaying images/videos using image_transport.
Plot	`Python`	Visualizes numeric values in a 2D plot using Qwt5, matplotlib or PyQtGraph.

not installed by the metapackage

GPS

C++

By using KDE Marble library, plot GPS coordinate on global mapping tool. Could be used also for navigation. See here for the discussion

Robot-interaction tools (rqt_robot_plugins)

See rqt_robot_plugins metapackage for the full list.

Group: Robot Tools

Diagnostic Monitor	`Python`	A simple GUI tool for displaying raw diagnostics data.
MoveIt! monitor	`Python`	Monitoring I/F for specific node, topics, parameters for moveit! motion planner.
Robot Steering	`Python`	Steers a robot using Twist messages.
Robot Monitor	`Python`	A simple GUI tool for displaying robot diagnostics that has been aggregated by the diagnostic_aggregator.

Group: Visualization

Navigation Viewer	`Python`	Viewer for map topic.
Pose View	`Python`	Visualizes a 3D pose.
RViz	`C++`	Embeds RViz.
TF Tree	`Python`	Visualizes the tree of ROS TF frames.

Plugins used as base class for robot specific plugins

Dashboard

Python

Debugging and controlling low-level state of a robot (similar functionality to pr2_dashboard and turtlebot_dashboard). The code is developed with the goal to easily create specific variants for concrete robots.

Robot specific tools

PR2 motor diagnostic

Python

This tool is used to detect PR2 motor faults such as bad encoders, unplugged encoders and cut motor wires and plot graphs showing these.

Group: Robot/PR2

PR2 Dashboard

Python

A GUI for debugging and controlling low-level state of the PR2.

Other plugins

Gauges	`C++`	Configurable virtual gauges.
Kobuki Desktop	Python, C++	Software for simulating Kobuki
Marble	C++	shows a geo position on an map. Marble is used as a widget base. The geo position has to be of the sensor_msgs::SatNavFix type. Made by Tobias Bär
Node Manager	Python	GUI to manage ROS nodes, topics, services, parameters and launch files in a ROS network with one or more ROS Master. Made by Alexander Tiderko.
ParamEdit	C++	List and edit parameters on the parameter server (similar functionality to command-line tool `rosparam`).
ROSTop	Python	A process monitoring utility similar to Ubuntu's System Monitor, which only shows info about ROS processes (merged to rqt_top).
PR2 PBD GUI	Python	Predefined text to speech command I/F for `PR2` made by Maya Cakmak.
ReconfigureGUI	Python	Tool to interface with nodes that have dynamic_reconfigure enabled
Shadow Robot Visualization stack	Python	GUI for the shadow_robot stack

Plugins currently in development

If you are working on a plugin for rqt, please add a short description and contact information below to prevent wasting efforts.

Math	-	plugin to perform math expressions on topics/fields. Discussion.
SMACH	-	Discussion
Speech easy	`Python`	rqt integration of Andreas Paepcke's speakeasy and related speech modules.
Trajectory plotter	-	Discussion

MR teleoperator

A collection of teleoperation modules utilizing a joystick (Xbox, PS) and Keyboard to control single and multiple robotsDiscussion

scriptable monitoring

Python monitoring scriptsDiscussion

Controller Manager

Discussion

2D semantic map editor

Discussion