#!/usr/bin/python from gi.repository import Gtk class application_gui: """Tutorial 01 Create and destroy a window""" def __init__(self): #load in our glade interface xml = Gtk.Builder() xml.add_from_file('tut01.glade') #grab our widget using get_object this is the name of the widget from glade, window1 is the default name self.window = xml.get_object('window1') #connect to events, in this instance just quit our application self.window.connect('delete_event', Gtk.main_quit) self.window.connect('destroy', lambda quit: Gtk.main_quit()) #show the window else there is nothing to see :) self.window.show() application = application_gui() Gtk.main()