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GTK2-NG — Modern Community Fork of GTK+ 2.24
Unofficial, community-maintained fork keeping GTK2 alive and usable on modern 64-bit Linux systems.
This fork focuses on modern compatibility while preserving stability, performance, ABI compatibility, and original behavior as much as possible. X11-first, no forced Wayland migration.
Backed by the devuanusers.com community.
Highlights
- Conservative GTK+ 2.24 maintenance with ABI compatibility as a priority
- Modern build-system and compiler-warning cleanup
- Compatibility fixes for current GCC, Clang, Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
- Selected safe patches from AUR, BSDs, Gentoo, Fedora and GTK2 maintenance forks
- Y2038-related internal time-handling improvements where ABI-safe
- Modernized private-data handling in many GTK/GDK classes
- Improved GtkFileChooser with optional icon view and better icon handling
- Preserved classic list view, GTK2 theming, engines, modules and legacy paths
- Continued focus on performance, low overhead and responsiveness
Roadmap
- Continue removing deprecated internal API usage where safe
- Improve file chooser responsiveness for large and network directories
- Add best-effort thumbnail generation and optional preview support
- Improve compatibility with traditional GTK2 themes and engines
- Add XDG-aware config, theme and icon lookup paths while keeping legacy paths
- Review Ardour's YTK GTK2 fork for portable, ABI-safe improvements
- Review further GTK2 maintenance forks for useful fixes
- Preserve CUPS/PPD printing workflows and add libppd support for newer CUPS
- Keep GTK2 useful on modern Unix-like systems without breaking existing apps
- Choose a better long-term project name
Build Instructions (Linux)
Safe test install (strongly recommended)
autoreconf -fvi
./configure --prefix=/tmp/gtk2-ng-test --with-xinput=yes
make -j$(nproc)
make install
Run apps against the test build
export GTK2_TESTDIR=/tmp/gtk2-ng-test
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$GTK2_TESTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$GTK2_TESTDIR/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export GTK_EXE_PREFIX="$GTK2_TESTDIR"
export GTK_DATA_PREFIX="$GTK2_TESTDIR"
export GTK_PATH="$GTK2_TESTDIR/lib/gtk-2.0"
leafpad # or any other GTK2 app
System-wide install
autoreconf -fvi
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-xinput=yes
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
Dependencies (Debian/Devuan/Ubuntu)
sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake gtk-doc-tools libtool pkg-config \
libglib2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libfontconfig1-dev \
libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxcursor-dev \
libxrandr-dev libxfixes-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
(Adjust for Arch, Gentoo, etc.)
How to Contribute
Join the main discussion here:
https://devuanusers.com/thread-gtk2-revival-thread--80
Test apps, report issues, submit patches!
License
LGPL v2.1 or later (same as original GTK+)