cinnamon

A lightweight suckless-inspired vim-like browser written in C, powered by WebKit2GTK-4.1 and GTK3.

Disclaimer

I request that none of this code, in part or in full, be hosted on GitHub, SourceForge, or any other proprietary platform. This request is made out of respect for both me, the developer, and you, the user.

Supported platforms

Linux, BSD (Windows/Mac are untested, try at your own risk)

Dependencies

Notice: On some systems, you may need GStreamer plugins (e.g. gst-plugins-pulse/gst-plugins-pipewire) for some websites to work. Please refer to the correct packages based on your distro.

webkit2gtk-4.1
gtk3
clang

To install dependencies on Arch-based systems:

# pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.1 gtk3 clang

On Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu):

# apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk3-dev clang

On Fedora-based systems:

# dnf install webkit2gtk4.1-devel gtk3-devel clang

On Gentoo-based systems:

# emerge net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1 x11-libs/gtk+:3 llvm-core/clang

Installation

To install this software, you must compile it from source. Don't worry, it should only take 5 seconds or less even on a low-powered computer. On my M2 MacBook Pro (running Arch Linux ARM), it takes about 0.3 seconds. Well, unless you're on Gentoo, because you'd have to compile the dependency WebKit2GTK-4.1 from source. Good luck, you'll need it lmao.

$ git clone https://git.arslaancodes.com/cinnamon-browser.git
$ cd cinnamon-browser
$ cp config.def.h config.h
# make install

To change the install directory, use the PREFIX environment variable. For example, to install in /opt/cinnamon/bin:

$ export PREFIX=/opt/cinnamon
# make install

Contributing

Generate a patch with git format-patch HEAD~1 and email to [email protected] or send to XMPP address [email protected], beginning the subject line with [PATCH cinnamon-browser]

If you are sending a revised version of a previous patch, please use [PATCH cinnamon-browser v2, v3, etc].