[pygtk] Application responsiveness problem

[Skip Montanaro]

    László> I want to make my application very responsive under high load.
    ...
    László> As you can see, I want to pulse a progress bar while a long
    László> (computationally or I/O intensive) operation is running.  I
    László> started a separate thread for it.

I could be wrong (never used threads with gtk), but don't you have some sort
of gtk thread initialization function(s) to call?  See if something in
section 20 of the PyGTK FAQ leads to a solution:

    http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=index

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