HUG to display their widgets in the web browser (broadwayd)

[bigbass]

Hey Guys

I found a cool discovery !
developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.22/broadwayd.html

easy to use to get HUG3 apps on your browser and they run
HUG3 uses gtk3

a working example to get you started




web-widgets.tar.gz (112.92 KB)

To keep it easy I tested this on mint 19 beta
just uncompress cd into and run autorun.sh

The autorun does the compiling and connecting a one click solution

Joe

[vovchik]

Dear Joe,

My version of Mint (17.3) doesn't have broadwayd. I am now looking for a suitable package or may later compile it myself, but I fear dependency hell. After that, I can test.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[bigbass]

Hey vovchik

updated the first post
now tested to be working on linux mint 19
with a better example to show interaction
between the app and the web browser as the canvas
broadwayd uses cairo to do its magic the image
looks different but better

Joe

[vovchik]

Dear Joe,

I compiled for Raspberry Pi and it works fine. I don't have firefox there, but only chromium. I modified the script, broadwayd started, and then nothing in chromium-browser (I changed autostart.sh). Still trying to get the browser to display...and will report back later.

Thanks.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[bigbass]

Hey vovchik

almost there ...

just installed chomium to test with a small edit

# or open your web browser and paste this http://127.0.0.1:8085
#firefox http://127.0.0.1:8085
chromium-browser http://127.0.0.1:8085


it may ask some password I invented mint then mint again (since it was the first time used )

and you may need to go to the url area in the browser click and the press enter in it to run

in theory it should do this for you also



after the first run it is automatic without password
ahhh normal user not root user when running the script !!

/home/mint/Documents/web-widgets
Joe

[bigbass]

I forgot about this broadwayd gtk3
developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html


but since I built an image for xubuntu rpi3
I tried to see if it would work again or not

and yes it works a bit awkward but works
awkward to automate but I almost got it

the reason being is number one you need to start the backend server first
then open the browser with the correct display
and run a gtk3 (gtk2 is not supported) app on that display


well all you do for testing is
run ./autorun.sh
then run ./autorun2.sh in a new terminal

and it should work if you have your gtk3 pre compiled with
broadwayd support or else it wont work

web-widgets-2.tar.gz (19.12 KB)


firefox is too slow so I installed chrome

note run all scripts as non root

one dep needed
#dependency
#sudo apt-get install libgoocanvas-2.0-9



Joe