Re: using gtk+ in a child process

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:31:53 +0200
Luka Napotnik <luka napotnik gmail com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have a GTK+ program that fork()-s and then in the child process
> initializes a GTK+ widget and uses it. Is that a good thing to do or
> should I init the GDK subsystem in the fork as well?

Does this work at all in your program - don't you get lots of X
asynchronous errors?

The best thing is to fork before doing anything with GTK+/GDK, and each
can initialise and use GTK+ separately in each process.  You can
communicate between processes using pipes, for example.

If that does not suit what you are doing, then use threads.

Chris