Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups

[torys . anderson]

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