## libgedit-amtk Introduction

libgedit-amtk Introduction — Introduction to The Good Morning Toolkit

libgedit-amtk is part of Gedit Technology.

It is a library that extends GTK at the exception of GtkTextView which is extended by libgedit-gtksourceview.

“Amtk” initially was the acronym for “Actions, Menus and Toolbars Kit”. It provides a basic GtkUIManager replacement based on GAction that is suitable for both a traditional UI or a modern UI with a GtkHeaderBar.

## GTK dependency

libgedit-amtk 5 depends on GTK 3.

## pkg-config name

For libgedit-amtk 5, the pkg-config name is: `libgedit-amtk-5`

To compile a program that uses libgedit-amtk 5, you can for example use the following command:

`$ gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libgedit-amtk-5` -o hello`