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netbird/client/ui/xembed_host_gtk3_linux.go
Zoltán Papp 2af67c7023 Ship a legacy GTK3 NetBird UI package alongside the GTK4 one
Wails v3 builds on GTK4/WebKitGTK 6.0 by default, but distros that don't
ship WebKitGTK 6.0 yet (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, RHEL 9, Fedora <=39)
can't install the GTK4 packages. Add a parallel legacy build via the
-tags gtk3 path (removed upstream in Wails v3.1).

The project's own XEmbed tray host links GTK4 and uses GTK4-only
popup-menu APIs, so it can't compile against GTK3. Rather than port the
~150-line C menu layer, exclude it on gtk3 builds (!gtk3 constraint on
xembed_host_linux.go + xembed_tray_linux.c) and add a pure-Go stub
(xembed_host_gtk3_linux.go) where xembedTrayAvailable() returns false.
The watcher probe then exits immediately, so the in-process XEmbed
fallback is absent on gtk3 builds -- the tray still works on desktops
that ship their own StatusNotifierWatcher, only the minimal-WM fallback
is unavailable.

goreleaser gains a netbird-ui-gtk3 build plus deb/rpm nfpm blocks (same
netbird-ui package name, GTK3/WebKit2GTK 4.1 deps) routed to dedicated
legacy repo paths. The release_ui CI job installs both dev stacks on the
runner so goreleaser builds both Linux variants natively.
2026-06-09 19:06:35 +02:00

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//go:build linux && gtk3 && !(linux && 386)
package main
import (
"errors"
"github.com/godbus/dbus/v5"
)
// The legacy GTK3 / WebKit2GTK 4.1 build (-tags gtk3) drops the in-process
// XEmbed StatusNotifierWatcher entirely. The real implementation
// (xembed_host_linux.go + xembed_tray_linux.c) links GTK4 and uses GTK4-only
// popup-menu APIs that have no drop-in GTK3 equivalent, so rather than port the
// C layer we stub the host out on gtk3 builds. The tray still works on every
// desktop that ships its own StatusNotifierWatcher (KDE, GNOME+AppIndicator,
// Cinnamon/xapp, XFCE, …); only the minimal-WM fallback (Fluxbox/OpenBox/i3/
// dwm/vanilla GNOME) is unavailable on gtk3 packages. See LINUX-TRAY.md.
// xembedHost is a placeholder so the package compiles on gtk3 builds; the real
// type (with X11/GTK4 state) lives in xembed_host_linux.go. It is never
// instantiated here because xembedTrayAvailable always reports false.
type xembedHost struct{}
// run satisfies the call in tray_watcher_linux.go; unreachable on gtk3 because
// newXembedHost never returns a non-nil host.
func (*xembedHost) run() {}
// xembedTrayAvailable always reports false on gtk3 builds, so the watcher probe
// loop in startStatusNotifierWatcher exits immediately and newXembedHost is
// never reached. recenter_linux.go's predicate becomes a harmless no-op too.
func xembedTrayAvailable() bool {
return false
}
// newXembedHost exists only to satisfy the reference in tray_watcher_linux.go;
// it is unreachable because xembedTrayAvailable returns false on gtk3.
func newXembedHost(conn *dbus.Conn, busName string, objPath dbus.ObjectPath) (*xembedHost, error) {
return nil, errors.New("xembed host unsupported on gtk3 build")
}