Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Have you tried emacs-nox and found this adverse popup behavior to happen 
in that package too?

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, torys.anderson@gmail.com wrote:

> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:35:40
> From: torys.anderson@gmail.com
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
> Cc: Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups
> 
> This behaves precisely the same way: :30-1:00 wait time for KDE to put up a 
> "password" prompt which requires I use a mouse. 
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:
>
>> Have you tried running emacs -nw inside of a terminal yet and interfacing 
>> with a password yet?
>> 
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Tory S. Anderson wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:09:40
>>> From: Tory S. Anderson <torys.anderson@gmail.com>
>>> To: Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>> Subject: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups
>>> 
>>> With Emacs 25.1.1, password prompts are no longer in the menu bar but via 
>>> my (KDE/Plasma) window manager. Not only is this annoying, it is costly -- 
>>> it takes 30 seconds to a full minute for the popup to appear, meanwhile 
>>> Emacs is frozen. I would love for this to just be the menu prompt, as it 
>>> used to be. I've tried
>>> 
>>> `(setq menu-prompting nil)` but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I see 
>>> these prompts most often when opening .gpg files and when trying to 
>>> perform a git push. I'm hoping someone will tell me there is a better way 
>>> to disable these than just rebuilding emacs from source with X menus 
>>> disabled (particularly as I have been pleased to get my emacs from the 
>>> repo without needing to build from source).
>>> 
>>> Good news would be much appreciated!
>>> 
>>> - Tory
>>> 
>>> 
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