Re: Handling Unix signals in a GTK+ application

[Andreas Stricker <andreas stricker fela ch>]

Thomas Okken schrieb:
> I would like to catch SIGINT in my GTK+ application,
> to do a graceful exit. I was looking for the GTK+
> equivalent of XtNoticeSignal(), but I guess there
> isn't one; 

No, I'm missing them too...

> I read a few articles discussing the use of a pipe,
> with an input source to handle the "noticing the
> event" bit within the main loop. It seems like a
> kludge, but I suppose it's workable... Is this still
> the recommended approach? (I notice the GTK
> documentation is utterly silent on the whole topic.)

Whether it recommended or not I don't know but I'm using it.

I've written some convenience functions to handle this.
They may be not perfect, but it works for me fine.

http://rapidmax.homelinux.net/src/gunixsignal/

I should also add a mirror here:
http://home.shinternet.ch/foo/src/gunixsignal/

Cheers, Andy