Signal on Main Thread from Any Other Thread

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I am really new to GTK (having come from a C#/Windows background).

How do I ask GTK (from an arbitrary thread) to signal on its main thread/loop? I haven’t been able to find the correct documentation for this. I don’t care much for sending data with the signal, and nor does it have to be a custom signal (I have my own message passing queue).

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If you just need to wake up the main loop (and you have a source that is already processing events with your custom message queue), you can just do something like:

g_main_context_wakeup (g_main_context_default ());

Otherwise look at something like g_idle_add().

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