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 vimperator, pentadactyl, jumanji, uzbl & 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

Compiling

To compile the stock luakit run:

make

To link against LuaJIT (if you have LuaJIT installed) run:

make USE_LUAJIT=1

To build with a custom compiler run:

make CC=clang

Note to packagers: you may wish to build luakit with:

make DEVELOPMENT_PATHS=0

To prevent luakit searching in relative paths (./config & ./lib) for user configs.

The USE_LUAJIT=1, PREFIX=/path, DEVELOPMENT_PATHS=0, CC=clang build options do not conflict. You can use whichever you desire.

Installing

To install luakit run:

sudo make install

The luakit binary will be installed at:

/usr/local/bin/luakit

And configs to:

/etc/xdg/luakit/

And the luakit libraries to:

/usr/local/share/luakit/lib/

To change the install prefix you will need to re-compile luakit (after a make clean) with the following option:

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

Use Luakit

Just run:

luakit [URI..]

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

luakit -h

Configuration

The configuration options are endless, the entire browser is constructed by the config files present in /etc/xdg/luakit

There are several files of interest:

• rc.lua -- is the main config file which dictates which and in what order different parts of the browser are loaded.
• theme.lua -- change fonts and colours used by the interface widgets.

Just copy the files you wish to change (and the rc.lua) into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/luakit (defaults to ~/.config/luakit/) and luakit will use those files when you next launch it.

The following files used to be configuration files, but are not anymore:

• binds.lua -- is now a built-in module providing the default bindings. Bindings should be changed with the modes APIs.
• modes.lua -- is now a built-in module providing built-in modes, as well as providing APIs to manage bindings within those modes.
• window.lua -- is now a built-in module.
• webview.lua -- is now a built-in module.
• webview_wm.lua -- is now a built-in module.
• globals.lua -- global settings have been moved to other modules.

These files will be silently ignored on startup so as to prevent errors; users wishing to override the built-in modules should change package.path.

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.

Uninstall

To delete luakit from your system run:

sudo make uninstall

If you installed with a custom prefix remember to add the identical prefix here also, example:

sudo make PREFIX=/usr uninstall

Reporting Bugs

Please use the bug tracker at:

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

IRC

Join us in #luakit on the irc.oftc.net network.