bug#19309: ediff: How to turn off pulsing icon in toolbar

bug#19309: ediff: How to turn off pulsing icon in toolbar

[Laurence Finston]

Hello,

I sent the following message to the help-gnu-emacs list, but didn't get an answer.
Perhaps someone here could help me.

Is there any way to turn off the pulsing icon in the toolbar when using Ediff?
Blinking cursors, etc. make me feel ill so I would appreciate it if someone could tell
me how to turn it off.

I'm using GNU Emacs 24.2.1, openSUSE 12.3 (i586) and IceWM. This is a new computer and
I never had this problem with Ediff before.

I'm not sure that "icon" is the right term. It's a field in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen with the name of one of the files (or buffers) that's being compared.

Thanks,

Laurence Finston

bug#19309: ediff: How to turn off pulsing icon in toolbar

[Noam Postavsky]

tags 19309 notabug
close 19309
quit

"Laurence Finston" <Laurence.Finston@gmx.de> writes:

> I sent the following message to the help-gnu-emacs list, but didn't get an answer.
> Perhaps someone here could help me.

Well, this might be too late to be of any use, but...

> Is there any way to turn off the pulsing icon in the toolbar when using Ediff?
> Blinking cursors, etc. make me feel ill so I would appreciate it if someone could tell
> me how to turn it off.
>
> I'm using GNU Emacs 24.2.1, openSUSE 12.3 (i586) and IceWM. This is a new computer and
> I never had this problem with Ediff before.
>
> I'm not sure that "icon" is the right term. It's a field in the
> toolbar at the bottom of the screen with the name of one of the files
> (or buffers) that's being compared.

As far as I know, Emacs never makes any kind of pulsing thing there.
I'm guessing that's your window manager giving you an indication that
there's a new window because ediff does create a little popup frame by
default.  Doing

    (setq ediff-window-setup-function #'ediff-setup-windows-plain)

might help by telling ediff to use a normal Emacs window instead, then
your window manager won't be bothered.

I'm closing this report, because it's probably not an Emacs bug (this
doesn't prevent you from replying if you find the above isn't
applicable).

bug#19309: Aw: Re: bug#19309: ediff: How to turn off pulsing icon in toolbar

[Laurence Finston]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.  I no longer have access to the computer in question and
haven't been using ediff lately, so I can't test your solution.  However, it might 
be useful in the future and I appreciate your taking the trouble to find one and 
let me know.  

Laurence

> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Juni 2018 um 02:53 Uhr
> Von: "Noam Postavsky" <npostavs@gmail.com>
> An: "Laurence Finston" <Laurence.Finston@gmx.de>
> Cc: 19309@debbugs.gnu.org
> Betreff: Re: bug#19309: ediff: How to turn off pulsing icon in toolbar
>
> tags 19309 notabug
> close 19309
> quit
> 
> "Laurence Finston" <Laurence.Finston@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I sent the following message to the help-gnu-emacs list, but didn't get an answer.
> > Perhaps someone here could help me.
> 
> Well, this might be too late to be of any use, but...
> 
> > Is there any way to turn off the pulsing icon in the toolbar when using Ediff?
> > Blinking cursors, etc. make me feel ill so I would appreciate it if someone could tell
> > me how to turn it off.
> >
> > I'm using GNU Emacs 24.2.1, openSUSE 12.3 (i586) and IceWM. This is a new computer and
> > I never had this problem with Ediff before.
> >
> > I'm not sure that "icon" is the right term. It's a field in the
> > toolbar at the bottom of the screen with the name of one of the files
> > (or buffers) that's being compared.
> 
> As far as I know, Emacs never makes any kind of pulsing thing there.
> I'm guessing that's your window manager giving you an indication that
> there's a new window because ediff does create a little popup frame by
> default.  Doing
> 
>     (setq ediff-window-setup-function #'ediff-setup-windows-plain)
> 
> might help by telling ediff to use a normal Emacs window instead, then
> your window manager won't be bothered.
> 
> I'm closing this report, because it's probably not an Emacs bug (this
> doesn't prevent you from replying if you find the above isn't
> applicable).
>