Re: Gconf without Gnome

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paul Coates <Paul Coates ncl ac uk> writes:
> 	I don't see how to get the child process to listen to gconf directly
> without having a gtk event loop. The child is something like
> 
> while(1)
> {
> 	sz = read(STDIN_FILENO, str, BUFSIZE);
> 	if (sz>0)
> 	{
> 		// handle new task
> 		write(STDOUT_FILENO, str, strlen(str)+1);
> 	}
> 	usleep(2000000);
> }
> 
> so what do I add to check for notify events without using gtk?
> 

It isn't the GTK main loop, it's the glib main loop. So your child
could run the glib main loop and still use only glib. (If it's a pain
to code that way you may not want to do it, but you could do it.)

Havoc