Starting a GUI application out of an console application

[faulkner]

put your gui application in another script and start it the same way
you'd start any other application whose exit status you didn't need:
os.popen* or subprocess.Popen.
or, use the threading module to give your qt application another
thread.


Fabian Steiner wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am currently working on an alternative for the gnome-volume-manager
> for multiseat systems based on HAL and DBus. Whenever the signal
> 'DeviceAdded' is received I would like to start a GUI-Interface where
> the user can choose from different options. But now I am wondering how I
> should start this interface since this GUI must be started by a console
> daemon. What is the most common way to do that?
>
> Usually, I start a PyQt application that way:
>
> app = QApplication(sys.argv)
> ui = Dialog()
> app.setMainWidget(ui)
> ui.show()
> app.exec_loop()
>
> If I start it that way, I am not quite sure whether this will work since
> I have got two main loops then (the one of console daemon [implemented
> by using gobject.MainLoop().run()] and the Qt one). Moreover, once the
> Qt application is started, it should run independently of the console
> daemon.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't think of any possibility to achieve this aim. Do
> you have any suggestions?