A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig

July 31, 2026 at 15:40

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Summary

A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig describes building an SSH passphrase prompt using GTK4 without X11 dependencies. The author compares multiple packaged ssh-askpass utilities on Gentoo that pull in X11 or KDE/Qt stacks, then explains a cross-compiling Zig-based solution with a GTK4 stub and no X headers. The piece covers usage, cross-architecture builds, and notes limitations around Wayland and input grabbing.

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