gtk4-broadwayd(1)

💅 NAME 💅

gtk4-broadwayd — bestie, it's literally the Broadway display server 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gtk4-broadwayd [OPTIONS...] <DISPLAY>
gtk4-broadwayd --port=PORT --address=ADDRESS <DISPLAY>
gtk4-broadwayd --unixaddress=ADDRESS <DISPLAY>

okay so that's the whole vibe: you give it a <DISPLAY>, you can sprinkle some options on top, and it does its thing 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So gtk4-broadwayd is a display server for the Broadway GDK backend. What does that mean for us? It means multiple GTK applications can all show their windows in the same web browser — they just all connect to gtk4-broadwayd and boom, shared screen energy 🌈✨

When you're using gtk4-broadwayd, you tell it which display number to use, and you prefix that number with a colon, just like X does it. Feral sibling behavior, but iconic 👑 The default display number is 0.

gtk4-broadwayd :5

Then you point your web browser at http://127.0.0.1:8085 and just... look at it. Obsessed 🫶

And to start your applications, you do this:

GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:5 gtk4-demo

That's it, that's the whole ritual fr fr 💀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --port PORT — use the PORT you pass in for the HTTP connection instead of the default, which is 8080 + (DISPLAY - 1). Math but make it fashion ✨
• --address ADDRESS — use the ADDRESS you pass in for the HTTP connection instead of the default, which is http://127.0.0.1. Local queen stays local 💜
• --unixsocket ADDRESS — use the given ADDRESS as the unix domain socket address. Heads up bestie: this one overrides both --address and --port, and it's only available on Unix-like systems. No cap. 🧚

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lowkey important reminder: the synopsis up there says --unixaddress=ADDRESS, while the options list calls it --unixsocket. Both are exactly what the page says, so I'm not touching either one — iykyk 🙈

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that's the whole page babes, you ate it 💅

source is GTK, manual page gtk4-broadwayd(1), and yes it's giving classic GTK manpage energy 🌸 bye bestie, go run your display server 🦋✨