2 questions regarding a perl daemon with a GTK interface

[gfricke hushmail com]

All,
I recently used glade to build my first perl program with a GUI interface. 
 I have come across two problems that I haven't been able to figure out. 
 My GTK experience is very minimal and my perl expertise is limited to just 
a few programs.

Problem 1 - How do I send GTK to the background so that I can run a daemon 
loop listening for remote connections, yet having the GTK portion of the 
program still sending all the actions/signals to thier appropriate functions/handlers? 
 If i enter my daemon loop after the Gtk->mainl command the loop never executes. 
 Likewise if I insert the daemon loop before the Gtk->main call the window 
never appears.

Problem 2 - How can I bind the window manager's destroy button "X" at the 
top right corner of the window to my exit function?  My exit button currently 
displays an exit dialog window before exiting the application, and I would 
like the same dialog when the user clicks on the "X" at the top of the window. 
   I tried using the delete_event signal handler with a call to my exit 
function, however, this method resulted in destroying the main window and 
then spawning my exit dialog window.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Greg
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