Running function 5 seconds after pygtk widget is shown

Question

How to run function 5 seconds after pygtk widget is shown?

Answer 1

If the time is not critical to be exact to the tenth of a second, use

glib.timeout_add_seconds(5, ..)

else as above.

timeout_add_seconds allows the system to align timeouts to other events, in the long run reducing CPU wakeups (especially if the timeout is reocurring) and save energy for the planet(!)