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→Note: * See work around in {{bug|8506}} to enable saving of GraphView charts. / also mentioned it on reddit gramps.
== Features ==
* Interactive.* The active person is highlighted.* Clicking a person will redraw the family tree based on that person.* Clicking the active person will show the parent family of the active person, thereby allowing previous generations to be shown.* The view can be panned by using mouse click and drag. Select the background of the tree and drag the mouse to pan the view.* The view can be zoomed using the slider.* A right mouse click on a person or family node shows the person or family editor as appropriate.* Right click a family to add or delete a sliderspouse or child.* The view redraws in response to changes made to a person or family. == Configure Options ==You can change the following: *Layout** Show images : checkbox selected by default** Highlight the home person : checkbox selected by default** Show full dates** Show places
* Graphviz. If you can run the Gramps Graph reports then you already have this installed.
* [http://live.gnome.org/PyGoocanvas PyGoocanvas](Gramps3) or [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection Goocanvas2 or gir1.2-goocanvas] (Gramps4)
* [http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas Goocanvas]
All of these should be available in common Linux distributions.
For example, Debian packages Goocanvas/PyGoocanvas as libgoocanvas3 and python-pygoocanvas.
=== Note ===
;Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)
These packages are not available for Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). You can download these as .deb files from [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/goocanvas-2.0/2.0.2-0ubuntu2 launchpad] and install them in the usual manner. You need the Binary packages shown at the bottom of that pages, except for the development libraries.
Please make sure to download these for the proper architecture, like amd64 for 64-bit PCs (Intel included).
;Opensuse
You may need to install <i>typelib-1_0-GooCanvas-2_0</i> as mentioned in issue {{bug|8076}}.
== Issues ==
* See work around in {{bug|8506}} to enable saving of GraphView charts.
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