diff --git a/backends/libpurple/spectrumeventloop.cpp b/backends/libpurple/spectrumeventloop.cpp
index 0ca6395e..d426073c 100644
--- a/backends/libpurple/spectrumeventloop.cpp
+++ b/backends/libpurple/spectrumeventloop.cpp
@@ -100,5 +100,6 @@ void SpectrumEventLoop::post(const Event& event) {
 	// pass copy of event to main thread
 	Event *ev = new Event(event);
 	LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "posting event to main thread " << ev);
-	purple_timeout_add(0, processEvent, ev);
+	g_main_context_invoke(g_main_loop_get_context(m_loop), processEvent, ev);
+// 	purple_timeout_add(0, processEvent, ev);
 }