rviz2
rviz2
The local-desktop ROS 2 visualization tool: displays for topics, TF frames,
markers, and robot models, driven by a saved .rviz config file per
robot/task. RViz2 ships across every ROS 2 distro back to the earliest
releases through Lyrical Luth (current LTS) and Rolling, verified via
direct fetch of index.ros.org's rviz2 package page on 2026-07-10 (the
docs.ros.org page returned an access-control error rather than content;
see References). So nothing in
this skill is distro-gated the way Nav2's binary packages are; the only
distro requirement is that ROS_DISTRO matches the sourced workspace. It is
a standard Qt/OpenGL desktop app with no headless or web mode; for a
remote/headless server or sharing a view, use foxglove instead (see
Platform gotchas).