giang-nguyentbk / gdbw

A TUI (Textual User Interface) for GDB

gdbw

A TUI (Text User Interface) for gdb using Python Prompt Toolkit

Screenshots

Installation

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/anakrish/gdbw.git

Prepend gdbw root folder to PATH and make sure that gdbw/gdb appears before /usr/bin/gdb:

$ export PATH=~/gdbw:$PATH
$ which -a gdbw
~/gdbw/gdb
/usr/bin/gdb

Run

Running gdb will automatically launch gdbw.

Commands

Keys	Action
Ctrl-x 1	Show source code and console
Ctrl-x 2	Show source code, disassembly and console
Ctrl-x a	Show only console
Ctrl-x b	Toggle show breakpoints
Ctrl-x c	Toggle show callstack
Ctrl-x d	Toggle show disassembly
Ctrl-x r	Toggle show registers
Ctrl-x s	Toggle show source
Ctrl-x t	Toggle show threads
Ctrl-x v	Toggle show variables (arguments and locals)
Ctrl-up	Enter copy mode in console
Ctrl-c	Exit copy mode or send interrupt to program
Shift-left	Focus previous window

Scrolling

Any window other than the console can be scrolled up or down by hovering the mouse in the window and using a scroll gesture or mouse wheel.

The console can be scrolled by entering copy mode by pressing Ctrl-up.

Selection

Any widow can be selected by double-clicking.