TinyWeb Browser

A lightweight web browser built with GTK and WebKit for Linux and WSL2.

Features

• Simple and minimal interface
• Command-line arguments for specifying URLs
• Bookmarks management
• Address bar navigation

Dependencies

• GTK 3
• WebKit2GTK

Installing the dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev pkg-config

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

sudo dnf install gcc gtk3-devel webkit2gtk3-devel pkg-config

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S base-devel gtk3 webkit2gtk pkg-config

OpenSUSE

sudo zypper install gcc gtk3-devel webkit2gtk-devel pkg-config

Building

gcc -o tinyweb tinyweb.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0 webkit2gtk-4.0)

Usage

From your terminal, run the following commands.

Run tinyweb with the hardcoded homepage:

./tinyweb

Run tinyweb and set the homepage at runtime:

./tinyweb -h https://example.com

Run tinyweb with a specific URL at runtime:

./tinyweb https://example.com

The rest is pretty intuitive UI stuff. Enjoy :)

• Steve