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On 8/5/22 03:52, Po Lu via Libc-alpha wrote:
> the GTK developers
> are unwilling to provide proper hooks (or even to use exit) instead.

Matthias suggested in <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4514> 
that Emacs could use a g_message hook and parse the message to determine 
that GTK is about to _exit. Although a horrible hack, I've seen worse 
hacks in Emacs.