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, select the Broadway backend by setting GDK_BACKEND=broadway . Then you can make your application appear in a web browser by pointing it at http://127.0.0.1:8080 . Note that you need to enable web sockets in your web browser.

You can choose a different port from the default 8080 by setting the BROADWAY_DISPLAY environment variable to the port that you want to use.

It is also possible to use multiple GTK+ applications in the same web browser window, by using the Broadway server, broadwayd, that ships with GTK+. To use broadwayd, start it like this:

broadwayd :5

Then point your web browser at http://127.0.0.1:8085 . Start your applications like this:

GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:5 gtk3-demo

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: