Catch a global keypress event

I have looked all over and can't figure out how to register a global shortcut key combination for my app. Something like CTRL+~ should bring up a dialog box, in front of all other windows, sort of like the ALT-Tab window. any suggestions on where to look? thanks, Ian. ___

Drawing a GtkButton on a GdkPixmap on a GtkDrawingArea

Hello all, I'm having a really difficult time doing something I feel ought to be rather easy. I'd like to draw arbitrary widgets surrounded by a colored border. I decided the best way to do this would be to layout the widgets normally inside of a container (e.g. a VBox) then plac