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Daemonratte

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Registered: 2026-04-09

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GTK2 Revival thread

Alright, I decided to pause the Seamless Devuan Project for a moment and fix gtk2.

Here is the repo:

https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng

I added the two patches that the AUR maintainers apply to gtk2, implemented stefan11111's g_qsort_with_data to g_sort_array modernisation and fixed all the compiler warnings so you can compile it on a modern system.

Tested both gcc 14 and clang 21 (and leafpad)

Future plans:
Backport further improvements by stefan11111's (a famous Xlibre contributer)
Backport new features from Ardour's gtk2 fork ytk (without breaking ABI
Getting rid of errors and bugs
Test compiling with gcc 15
Find another name?
Change the license to gpl3 if possible (probably not)

Please test it and report any errors to me

Edit:
Here are build instructions (for installing it on the system:

touch README
autoreconf -fvi
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-xinput=yes
make -j"$(nproc)"
sudo make install

if you only want to test it, only use

./configure --prefix=/TESTDIR --with-xinput=yes
make -j"$(nproc)"
make install

and change TESTDIR to another location

Last edited by Daemonratte (2026-04-21 07:39:06)

zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

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Re: GTK2 Revival thread

If I run into any when using it.

But I tend not to use gtk2 as much on my devuan install, except maybe for palemoon.

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brocashelm

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Registered: 2020-06-29

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Re: GTK2 Revival thread

Figured I'd bump this, what with lots of media outlets reporting on this new fork. Most of the discussions are taking place at the Devuan Users Forum (an unofficial community for Devuan and other non-Systemd GNU/Linux and *BSD users) here.

Phoronix and even DistroWatch.com have already reported on this. Bryan Lunduke has also posted his video on this.

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blackhole

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Registered: 2020-03-16

Posts: 205  

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

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So, history often repeats itself...

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