do i have to emit a signal after toggling it on and off? I have my daemon changing the value via gconf and apps don't really seem to react properly on the change of this configuration value my code is here https://bitbucket.org/jeffrey04/rest...dater_class.py EDIT: I am thinking on removing the heartbeat thingy (qsystemalignedtimer?) and subscribe to the event where connection is changed, but don't really know how to do it EDIT: btw, it is actually sort of possible to automatically turn on/off 'allow background connections' using ajalkane's profilematic app