Disable all GUI popups and tooltips

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Can I disable this kind of a popup?

I couldn't find anything besides (setq x-gtk-use-system-tooltips nil), but it didin't help me unfortunately.

Note that GUI dialogs only ever appear in response to mouse events. If you don't do things with the mouse, you won't see them at all. — phils, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:43
Unfortunately, it's not true. I definitely don't do things with a mouse when this dialog appears. — valignatev, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:06
That's unusual behaviour, then. Does your example happen when you use C-x C-f to visit such a symlink? The prompt would normally be in the minibuffer in that scenario. Does the same thing happen when you run emacs -Q ? — phils, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:47
Ah, C-h v use-dialog-box says "On some platforms, file selection dialogs are also enabled if this is non-nil." so I guess that's what's happening? Sorry for my confusion -- I was entirely oblivious to this working differently on different platforms. Which OS is this? — phils, Jun 1, 2018 at 15:46
I've mostly used Debian and derivative GNU/Linux systems, and have never encountered this, to my recollection. I'm not really familiar with Arch, but it seems surprising to me that it would be different. I have no knowledge of how/why this platform-specific behaviour exists, though. Thanks for the follow-ups -- I've learned something new here. — phils, Jun 1, 2018 at 15:54

sivakov512 · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-01 03:45:04Z

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To disable dialog windows set use-dialog-box to nil

(setq use-dialog-box nil)

answered Jun 1, 2018 at 3:45

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