keyboard interrupt with with python gtk?
because of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622084 gtk applications written using pygobject will not close themselves when using Ctrl + C on the terminal.
to work around it, you can install a Unix signal handler like this:
if __name__ == '__main__': import signal signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL) your_application_main()
The accepted answer would not work for me. I resolved it by replacing the Gtk.main() call with GLib.MainLoop().run(), as explained in the bug report.
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()