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Hello Everyone,

I am trying to embed Nautilus and possibly the gnome-terminal into my GTK Application. I would like to add it to a section on a hbox? Any Ideas. I have goggled an i am not finding much on how to embed an external program into a GTK+ Applcation. I am using C on Ubuntu 12.04.

Thank You!

You don't mention which version of GTK your using but with Ubuntu 12.04, I'll assume it's gtk+3 because it's available from synaptic in that version of Ubuntu.

1) Don't use hbox, it been deprecated since gtk version 3.2
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkHBox.html#gtk-hbox-new

2) You can use gtk_box_new() with orientation set to GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL. But even GtkBox is going away eventually so you should use GtkGrid instead.
(The manual only mentions this in the documentation for GtkVBox)
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkVBox.html#GtkVBox.description

3) You don't actually embed a terminal in a GtkWindow. Instead use a GtkTextView widget to simulate it. You launch a terminal as a background process and communicate with it using pipes and one of the g_spawn() functions.
http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=3818
http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Spawning-Processes.html#g-spawn-command-line-sync

4) To keep it simple I would have a "SEND" button to transmit what you've typed in the GtkTextView to the terminal. That way you avoid writing keypress code to capture the "ENTER" key.

As far a Nautilus I'm not shure.

Hi.

Directly embedding Nautilus is not possible, since this app doesn't have any widgets exposed to 3rd party app developers. As for terminal, there is a library called VTE, which is the main part of gnome-terminal and can be easily embedded in your app.

Cheers,
Tadej

I came across VTE in the past but had forgot all about it. Thanks Tadeboro.

http://developer.gnome.org/vte/