iconify-frame and make-frame-visible messages in echo area

[Stephen Berman]

On 8 Feb 2003 Benjamin Rutt posted the bug report pasted below.  There
was no answer on the list and the behavior still persists (the
specific window manager is probably irrelevant; I mostly use KDE and
it happens there too).

<quote>
I just updated emacs CVS today (previously I had been using CVS from
about 6 months ago) and noticed what I believe is a bug, that wasn't
there in CVS 6 months ago.  I'm using the window manager WindowMaker.

Here is the problem:  every time I switch workspaces (a WindowMaker
term) from one containing an emacs frame to one that doesn't contain
an emacs frame, I get a message in the emacs echo area like:

(iconify-frame (#<frame <address@hidden>  *scratch* 0x570a00>))

And when I return to the workspace that contains the emacs frame, I
get the following message in the echo area:

(make-frame-visible (#<frame <address@hidden>  *scratch* 0x570a00>))

Are these kind of messages supposed to be sent to the echo area?  Can
I suppress them?  Thank you very much.
</quote>


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.9)
 of 2005-02-11 on nolde
Distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60801903
configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: C

Minor modes in effect:
  tabbar-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <help-echo> <tool-bar> <newsticker-close-buffer> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-x k <return> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h 
f <up> <up> <return> <select-window> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-2> <f1> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> 
<kill-buffer> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> 
C-h f <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
m a k e . - <backspace> <backspace> - f r a m <tab> 
- v i <tab> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <f1> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> 
<mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> 
M-x <up> <return>

Recent messages:
Opening nnfolder server on archive...done
Saving file /home/steve/Mail/archive/sent...
Wrote /home/steve/Mail/archive/sent
Sending...done
Saving file /home/steve/.newsticker-cache...
Wrote /home/steve/.newsticker-cache
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
Loading semantic-c...done
Loading vc-cvs...done
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