Here's a tiny, complete program that does almost what you want. It's gtk2, but should work fine with gtk3.
It just updates a status bar, but it'd be easy to make it do a textview instead. John _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list