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Using Broadway without broadwayd hasn't worked since 2013...

Fixes: #5662
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Matthias Clasen
2023-03-17 08:56:23 -04:00
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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, `gtk4-broadwayd`, that ships with GTK.
To start the Broadway server use:
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
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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`