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In Gtk4, I want to plot something into a DrawingArea, and want the colors to depend on the theme. Since StyleContext is now deprecated from Gtk 4.10, how could this be achieved? Gtk docs simply say &...
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I tried using the GTK inspector to try and find the correct css node for but to no avail I tried every selector i could think of like .GtkSourceView.sourceview.view text .current-line or even ...
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About three years ago I tried to follow the GTK3 tutorial for Common Lisp. I had different problems then, but many of the examples worked without any complains. Now I took the time to reconsider it, ...
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I have started developing a small app in Rust using GTK4 bindings on Linux Mint. I have created the following resources.gresource.xml in the project directory: <?xml version="1.0" ...
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I don't get any errors. There is just page 1 visible without the switcher... Tried on 2 different machines running Fedora. Already checked api.pygobject.gnome.org and asked the stupid ai. Can someone ...
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I have the following PyGObject code as an MWE: import gi gi.require_version("Gtk", "4.0") from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib class FontSizeApp(Gtk.Application): def __init__(...
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Problem Statement I'm subclassing Gtk4 container widgets so I can add functionality to various property changes. For this question I'll use set_orientation from Gtk.Box and the Gtk.Orientable ...
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I have a simple GTK4 C program that displays a dropdown with 3 choices and a label. The callback for the dropdown notify::selected-item event passes the label as the 2nd argument. The callback is ...
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When I make an appimage of my simple gtk4 application and run it on certain distros like fedora the svg icons don't render properly. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/3cKKkjx.png The basic code ...
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Dispose tempalte disposes only bound widgets. Is there a way to dispose all children graph? Here are the details. Object implementation: #[derived_properties] impl ObjectImpl for MyWidget { ...
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I have created GTK Grid using gtk_grid_new and set both column and row spacing to 0 (gtk_grid_set_column_spacing and gtk_grid_set_row_spacing), however for some reason I still get 1px spacing between ...
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I'm creating a Gtk4 app in python 3 and I want to trigger a state change when the user mouses over the ApplicationWindow but I'm banging my head against a wall trying to figure out what signal string ...
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I have a Gtk.ColumnView where cells are represented by Gtk.EditableLabels. Keyboard navigation works fine, clicking in the cells to edit them works fine, tab navigation works fine. However, clicking ...
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Whenever I use a GtkBox to hold a WebKitWebView, it does not display on screen. However when directly appending the WebKitWebView as the child of the window, it does. This works: GtkWidget *...
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I have a css file like this in a gtk4 application. I am expecting the GtkButton to change its color when the mouse hovered over it. headerbar button { border-radius: 20px; border-style: none; ...
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Since GTK's CSS implementation doesn't support transform: property for arbitrary widgets, you have to do it other ways. E.g., you can apply a GskTransform to a widget, but unfortunately it only works ...
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When I turn off monitor (by power button), my gtk4 app gets closed with no output and return code 0. From what I've read, it might be some interaction between wayland and gtk4, but I've found no fix ...
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I am using gtk4 for building a gui application. However I am facing issue upon running a sample code for testing. use gtk4 as gtk; use gtk::prelude::*; use gtk::{glib, Application, ApplicationWindow, ...
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I'm trying to keep number of connected Bluetooth devices by listening for dbus changes. I can get list of known devices by contacting ObjectManager of Bluez daemon, and keep it in sync by listening ...
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Trying to create gtkmm 4 header unit using g++ 15 with: g++ -std=c++23 -fmodules -fsearch-include-path -fmodule-header gtkmm.h `pkg-config --cflags gtkmm-4.0` I get the following error: /usr/...
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I have a GTK4 Adwaita application built with GJS. I'm trying to add a PreferencesDialog that pops up over the ApplicationWindow but blocks interaction with the window, similar to a lot of other ...
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I am passing the sender of on async channel to a modal window so that the modal window can send messages to the parent window: ... let (tx, rx): (Sender<ApplicationMessage>, Receiver<...
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I have the following ui for gtk4 and rust: main_window.ui .... <template class="MainWindow" parent="GtkApplicationWindow"> <property name="default-width&...
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I have gone through the examples for gtk4 and I am trying to show a 2nd window modally. I am showing the main window as a composite template and would like to show a dialog that is also a composite ...
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Consider a CustomWidget, which contains 3 buttons. This widget is a final class, and its buttons are private. How is it possible to a widget that holds CustomWidget listen to buttons clicked signal? ...
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I am working on a GTK4 application using Python, and I am trying to justify (fill) the text in a Gtk.TextView. While the text is justified properly for most lines, the last line of the text block is ...
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I want to implement a choice with a DropDown, clicking on the DropDown to execute a connect_closure, reading doc I guess the choice is in the paramspec, but I am unable to retrieve the choice in the ...
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I'm writing a GTK4 application, and it consumes very high CPU load. Digging in a bit, it turned out that I have enormously high amount of this system call (strace snippet): recvmsg(14, {msg_namelen=0},...
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I create an test_object which contains a function _finalize. G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE(TestObject, test_object, TEST, OBJECT, GObject) .... void test_object_finalize(GObject* object) { GObjectClass *...
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I've googled about this quite a bit. I've put a number of examples of what I tried https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/gtk-4-menu/trunk - I'm going to quote the closest one immediately below in case ...
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To style the headers in a Gtk::ColumnView I had been using CSS to make the headers a fixed width font so that I could crudely centre them. I had also set the font style to bold. I have recently ...
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Gtk documentation on migrating to Gtk4 mentions that Tabular menus were rarely used and complicated the menu code, so they have not been brought over to GtkPopoverMenu. If you need complex layout in ...
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(Using GTK 4.8 on Debian) I created a file filter for specific image suffixes: GtkFileFilter *file_filter = gtk_file_filter_new (); gtk_file_filter_add_suffix (file_filter, "png"); ...
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I am trying to move GtkWindow via GtkGestureLongPress. I want to implement it in VTE base terminal app. My script is given below. The problem is - I ran the ping(ping 127.0.0.1) command in the ...
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It seems to be working if only GTK4 widgets are used. If i add libadwaita widgets though the thing builds fine but crashes during runtime. Libadwaita bindings work fine when used without Gtk.Builder ...
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I am trying to remove the selected item from a column view. I found this demo script from this site, which was explained by another user for the sort function. It has 2 columns, I want, when I click ...
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I'm going to wrap a function same as windows api: GetOpenFileName using gtk3. However, at some cases, calling gtk_init results in crash. #include "gtkdlghelper.h" #include <gtk/gtk.h> ...
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I have a sample GTK4 application where a list of entries is arranged vertically in a scrolled window. When I test the application using a mouse by continuously scrolling the window, the app does not ...
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I am trying to create a preferences window for my app. I want the child-window (preferences) to open above the parent-window (main-window) and in the middle of the parent-window. But the problem is, ...
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I want to use GtkText widget inside GtkPopover. But the problem is, when I try to copy text from GtkText widget by right clicking (via GtkText default context menu); then GtkPopover autohide stops ...
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I am trying to change the font size of a GtkText widget by applying PangoAttribute and changing PangoAttrList. I am also using a GtkSpinButton to update the font size. But the problem is, when i click ...
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I am using GtkStackSwitcher and GtkStack widget in gtk4, trying to add window close icon/button and label together in GtkStackSwitcher (page). I tried the demo script below. It is adding the page with ...
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I'm working with GTK4 and libadwaita, and I'm trying to use an icon with the Adw.EntryRow widget. However, I noticed that the document-edit-symbolic icon seems to be missing. Here's a simplified code ...
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I'm learning GTK, and I'm trying to get its hello world example program compile on my ubuntu 24.04 system, but I got this following message: > gcc $(pkg-config --cflags gtk4) -o hello-world-gtk ...
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I'm trying to develop a widget in gtk4 as follows: let container = Box::new(Orientation::Horizontal, 0); let workspace_num = Label::new(Some("11")); let workspace_num_box = gtk4::Box::new(...
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based on this exemple example-columnview-with-strings-gtk4-c I test this new widget with my data below a mwe code in order to select part with error I have an error when I implement 7 callcak "...
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since Gtk 4.10 it's a little difficult to implement an gtk dialog the only source found is reddit with just an little bug void gtk_alert_dialog_set_buttons ( GtkAlertDialog* self, const char* const* ...
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I have a Gtk.Label in an app I am working on migrating from Gtk3 to Gtk4. In Gtk3, Label had a set_angle method that allowed rotating a label about its center. That was removed in Gtk4, but there isn'...
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I have a special input method installed on my Linux laptop, Chewing from Fcitx 5 for Chinese traditional. But when I type something inside the GtkTextView, only English alphabets appears. I found ...
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I am using webitgtk6 #include <webkit/webkit.h> Here are printing result functions static void print_finished(WebKitPrintOperation *operation, gpointer user_data) { g_print("Done\n&...
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