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title: "New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft's .NET MAUI"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-maui-gtk-project-provides-a-gtk4-backend-for-microsoft-s-net-maui-0lmhu1l5k
source_url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-dotNET-MAUI-GTK4
type: article
source: "Phoronix"
published: 2026-03-07T11:55:14.739Z
updated: 2026-03-07T11:57:48.299Z
tags: ["linux", "c#", ".net-maui"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 3
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# New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft's .NET MAUI

**[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project that adds a GTK4 Linux backend to Microsoft's .NET MAUI framework, enabling MAUI applications to run natively on the Linux desktop. It uses GirCore bindings for GTK4 rendering and is currently in an experimental state. The project is available on GitHub under an MIT license.

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