Luakit is a highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license.

It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people with too much time on their hands who want to have fine-grained control over their web browsers behaviour and interface.

Configuring¶

luakit could equally be known as "browser from scratch" as the entire interface is created by the users rc.lua configuration file.

The default rc.lua aims to create a familiar browsing experience to other micro-browsers like jumanji, uzbl, surf and the bloated vimperator and vrome plugins for firefox and chromium.

If you have any familiarity with the Awesome Window Manager you will have no problem configuring or customising luakit's rc.lua.

Documentation¶

View the doxygen generated documentation here:

http://doc.luakit.org/html/

Downloads¶

Gentoo¶

The latest versions of luakit can be found in the main Gentoo portage tree.

• www-client/luakit

Archlinux¶

luakit is now in [community] or you can use the following AUR package to build the latest development version:

• luakit-git

Debian/Ubuntu¶

Several versions of luakit can be found in debian sid.

Fedora¶

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/luakit

Source tarball¶

• Latest stable release: luakit-2011.07.22-r1
• Latest development snapshot: luakit-develop

Older releases can be found on github.

Screenshots¶

Dependencies¶

• glib (2.14)
• gtk2
• lua (5.1)
• libwebkit
• lfs (lua file system)
• sqlite3
• libunique (in the develop branch)

Community¶

Mailing List¶

• Subscribe to the luakit-dev mailing list here
• View the mailing list archives here

IRC¶

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

Repository¶

You can check out the repository with the following command:

git clone git://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit.git

Or browse the source locally or over at github.

Sub-projects¶