Re: Idle Function Not Getting Called

[Marshall Lake <mlake mlake net>]

> > The following are the first few lines of my main() ...
> >
> >      openlog ("gtknsbclient", LOG_NDELAY, LOG_USER);
> >      if (!g_thread_supported ())
> >          g_thread_init (NULL);
> >      gdk_threads_init ();
> >      gdk_threads_enter ();
> >
> >      /* initialize GTK interface */
> >      gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

> And now you pull the GDK global lock out of the hat to add to the mix!
>
> I would suspect that you are recursively, or out-of-order, locking on 
> that, given the large number of other locks you seem to have in your 
> program. It is difficult to use correctly.
>
> Why incidentally are you using both extra-threaded access to GTK+ with 
> the GDK global lock and also accessing GTK+ from threads via the idle 
> handler?  You would normally do one or the other, not both.  Why not 
> drop the global lock, or drop the idle handlers (preferably the first of 
> those)?

I'll be a son-of-a-gun.  Removing the gdk_* calls fixed the problem.  It's 
something I should have known.

I really appreciate your time and effort helping me.

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