Updated On: Tutorial updated and rechecked on 29th of October 2024
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I have always wanted to learn how to create an application in Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based distribution. There is a lot of information out there and If I'm honest it can get quite confusing.
I also don't mind admitting that I am no expert in this field, but I wanted to put something down that I could revisit later to give me a starting point. Please note if your using Kubuntu / KDE things will be different.
In this tutorial, we create a basic window using Python3 and GTK.
First of all you need to make sure python 3 is installed, most Ubuntu and Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions already include this, but to check enter the following command in the terminal.
python3 --version
If you don't get any ouput from the terminal enter the following command in the terminal
sudo apt-get install python3
Once installed, it's now time to create our first window
Create a new file on your Desktop name new_window.py
Next enter the following command in the terminal to get your path to python3
which python3
Create a new file on your desktop, and save this as new_window.py, then copy and paste the code below.
#!/usr/bin/python3
import gi
gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gtk
