keyboard interrupt with with python gtk?

Question

So just like the question says, I\'m trying to let keyboard interrupts happens while Gtk.main() is in progress, however, it just doesn\'t seem to notice that the keyboard in

Answer 1

I also ran into trouble when using the signal module to override the SIGINT handler (100% CPU on the python thread); an alternative for me was the following:

def main():
    self.mainloop = GObject.MainLoop()
    try:
        self.mainloop.run()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        logger.info('Ctrl+C hit, quitting')
        self.exit()

def exit():
    self.mainloop.quit()