Luakit

luakit is a fast, light and simple to use micro-browser framework
extensible by Lua using the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+
toolkit.

Don't Panic!

You don't have to be a developer to use luakit on a daily basis. If you
are familiar with quitebrowser, vim-browser, jumanji or extensions like
Vimium or cVim etc, you will find luakit behaves similarly out of the box.

Requirements

GTK+ 3
Lua 5.1 or LuaJIT 2
lfs (lua file system)
webkit2gtk
sqlite3
gstreamer (for video playback)
lua-socket (for gopher support)

Installing

Luakit is available on most Linux Distributions and BSD system via their
package managers. A few examples below:

Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install luakit
Gentoo: emerge luakit
Guix: guix install luakit
Arch: pacman -S luakit
FreeBSD: pkg install luakit
OpenBSD: pkg_add luakit
Void Linux: xbps-install luakit

Packaging status:

Installing from source

Make sure you system fulfills the requirements listed above, then
install luakit with the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/luakit/luakit.git
$ cd luakit
$ make
$ sudo make install

Uninstall with:

$ sudo make uninstall

Note: If you are on BSD, you might need to use gmake.

Use Luakit

Just run:

$ luakit [URI..]

Or to see the full list of luakit launch options run:

$ luakit -h

Luakit works with vim-style bindings. To find out more, type :help
within luakit.

Configuration

Luakit configuration files are written in lua. This means you can
program within the config files, which make the configuration options
endless.

There are three ways to customize luakit.

1. within luakit

After starting luakit, type :settings. This page shows you webkit
engine related settings.

2. userconf.lua

Create a file called $HOME/.config/luakit/userconf.lua. Then add
your configuration there. Configuration in this file supersedes
configuration set in :settings

3. copy rc.lua

The most powerful customization is to copy rc.lua from
/etc/xdg/luakit/rc.lua to $HOME/.config/luakit/rc.lua

When this file is found, /etc/xdg/luakit/rc.lua is ignored.

Be informed that when luakit is updated, you may need to adapt changes
from /etc/xdg/luakit/rc.lua to your own copy.

Colors and fonts

Copy the /etc/xdg/luakit/theme.lua to
$HOME/.config/luakit/theme.lua. You can change fonts and colors there.

Development Information

This section contains information about the compile and testing process.

Luakit honors the PREFIX variable. The default is /usr/local.

$ make PREFIX=/usr
$ sudo make PREFIX=/usr install

Notes:

You also have to set the PREFIX when uninstalling.
If you want to change PREFIX after a previous build, you need to make clean first.

Luakit uses luajit by default, to use lua you can turn off luajit
with:

$ make USE_LUAJIT=0

To build with local paths (interesting for package maintainer and
contributers). You may wish to build luakit with:

$ make DEVELOPMENT_PATHS=1

This lets you start luakit from the build directory, using the config
and libraries within the same.

Take a look at config.mk for more options.

If you made changes and want to know if luakit is still working properly,
you can execute the test suite with:

$ make test

Debugging Luakit

Enable debug output

Debug output can be turned on by starting luakit with the --log option.

$ luakit --log=verbose              # or: -v
$ luakit --log=all=debug            # or: --log=debug
$ luakit --log=lua/adblock=debug    # turn on debug on for the adblock module.

Console output an also be seen within luakit using :log when the
log_chrome
module is loaded (default). Note that debug log level may lead to a race
condition when the update of the log page leads to debug output, which
causes an update of the :log page.

Execute lua within Luakit

If you want to examine the lua state at runtime, you can do so by
running lua script within luakit. This will print "Hello World!"
on the console.

:lua print("Hello World!");

w:notify() can be used to show the output in the input/status bar. This
example shows the configuration directory in the input/status bar.

:lua w:notify(luakit.config_dir)

Print the lua package search paths:

:lua w:notify(package.path:gsub(";","\n"))

To extend the lua debugging capabilities, you can copy "inspect.lua"
from here into the luakit
configuration directory. Now you can inspect complex data types like
tables:

:lua local inspect = require "inspect"; w:notify(inspect(webview))

Tips and Fixes:

Video playback

If you're having issues with video playback, this is often related to
buggy graphic drivers. It often helps to set LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE before
starting luakit:

$ export LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1

HiDPI Monitor Configuration

If you have a HiDPI monitor (> 1920x1080) and find that web pages are
too small, you can change the webview.zoom_level on the settings page
(luakit://settings/) to 150 or 200 as per your taste.

Reporting Bugs

Please note that most rendering related issues come from the used webkit
engine and can not be fixed by luakit. If you think your issue is luakit
related, please use the bug tracker at:

https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues

Coming from a very old luakit version? Look at the
MIGRATION document.

IRC

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