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Title: The Broadway windowing system Slug: broadway
Using GTK with Broadway
The GDK Broadway backend provides support for displaying GTK applications in a web browser, using HTML5 and web sockets.
To run your application in this way, first run the broadway server,
gtk-broadwayd
, that ships with GTK:
gtk4-broadwayd :5
The server expects the colon-prefixed display number as a commandline argument.
Then point your web browser at http://127.0.0.1:8085
.
Once the Broadway server is running, you can start your applications like this:
GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:5 gtk4-demo
Multiple applications can be presented in the same web browser window.
Broadway-specific environment variables
BROADWAY_DISPLAY
Specifies the Broadway display number. The default display is 0.
The display number determines the port to use when connecting to a Broadway application via the following formula:
port = 8080 + display