Using GTK on Windows 3 GTK Library Using GTK on Windows Windows-specific aspects of using GTK The Windows port of GTK is an implementation of GDK (and therefore GTK) on top of the Win32 API. When compiling GTK on Windows, this backend is the default. The Windows GDK backend can be influenced with some additional command line arguments. Don't batch GDI requests. This might be a marginally useful option for debugging. Don't use the Wintab API for tablet support. Use the Wintab API for tablet support. This is the default. In 256 color mode, restrict the size of the color palette to the specified number of colors. This option is obsolete. The Win32 GDK backend can be influenced with some additional environment variables. If this variable is set, GTK doesn't use the Wintab API for tablet support. If this variable is set, GTK uses the Wintab API for tablet support. This is the default. Specifies the size of the color palette used in 256 color mode. By default the "system" cursor theme is used. This makes GTK prefer cursors that Windows currently uses, falling back to Adwaita cursors and (as the last resort) built-in X cursors. When any other cursor theme is used, GTK will prefer cursors from that theme, falling back to Windows cursors and built-in X cursors. Theme can be changed by setting gtk-cursor-theme-name GTK setting. Users can override GTK settings in the settings.ini file or at runtime in the GTK Inspector. Themes are loaded from normal Windows variants of the XDG locations: %HOME%/icons/THEME/cursors, %APPDATA%/icons/THEME/cursors, RUNTIME_PREFIX/share/icons/THEME/cursors. The gtk-cursor-theme-size setting is ignored, GTK will use the cursor size that Windows tells it to use. More information about GTK on Windows, including detailed build instructions, binary downloads, etc, can be found online.