from gi.repository import Gtk """ Since GTK+3 Gtk.CellRenderer doesn't have a destroy signal anymore. We can do the cleanup in the python destructor method instead. """ class MyCellRenderer(Gtk.CellRenderer): def __init__(self): Gtk.CellRenderer.__init__(self) def __del__(self): print("cellrenderer destroy") def do_render(self, cairo_t, widget, background_area, cell_area, flags): pass def window_destroy_cb(*kwargs): print("window destroy") Gtk.main_quit() window = Gtk.Window(Gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL) window.connect("destroy", window_destroy_cb) window.show() def treeview_destroy_cb(*kwargs): print("treeview destroy") treeview = Gtk.TreeView() treeview.connect("destroy", treeview_destroy_cb) window.add(treeview) treeview.show() col = Gtk.TreeViewColumn() treeview.append_column(col) cel = MyCellRenderer() col.pack_start(cel, expand=True) Gtk.main()