Blinking of window tab (in panel) stops after a while

[JakubRimal]

Hi,
after the upgrade to Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit (Cinnamon 2.6.13) blinking of window tabs in panel does not work correctly.

Before the upgrade:
When some window wants to alert me (typically when someone writes me to the Pidgin), window tab in panel starts blink and it blinks until I focus to this window.

After the upgrade:
When some window wants to alert me (typically when someone writes me to the Pidgin), window tab in panel blinks only few times.

Do you know how to fix it or how to set it up to get the previous behaviour back?

[ulkhem]

Yes, I miss the older behavior too, specially given that the Thunderbird notifications are broken currently.

[dirtyernie]

I thought it was just me?

[gigs94]

I have the same issue and it's driving me nuts!!!! There has got to be a setting somewhere for this.

[gigs94]

I fixed it... You can edit this file: /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/window-list@cinnamon.org/applet.js and find this line:

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    _flashButton: function(counter) {
        if (!this._needsAttention)
            return;

        /* Put this next line here instead of after the if (counter == 4) block */
        this.actor.add_style_class_name("window-list-item-demands-attention");

        if (counter == 4)
            return;

        Mainloop.timeout_add(FLASH_INTERVAL, Lang.bind(this, function () {
            this.actor.remove_style_class_name("window-list-item-demands-attention");
        }));
        Mainloop.timeout_add(FLASH_INTERVAL * 2, Lang.bind(this, function () {
            this._flashButton(++counter);
        }));
    }

And then restart Cinnamon:

alt-f2 and then type r and hit enter

[JakubRimal]

I fixed it... You can edit this file: /usr/share/cinnamon/applets/window-list@cinnamon.org/applet.js and find this line:

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    _flashButton: function(counter) {
        if (!this._needsAttention)
            return;

        /* Put this next line here instead of after the if (counter == 4) block */
        this.actor.add_style_class_name("window-list-item-demands-attention");

        if (counter == 4)
            return;

        Mainloop.timeout_add(FLASH_INTERVAL, Lang.bind(this, function () {
            this.actor.remove_style_class_name("window-list-item-demands-attention");
        }));
        Mainloop.timeout_add(FLASH_INTERVAL * 2, Lang.bind(this, function () {
            this._flashButton(++counter);
        }));
    }

And then restart Cinnamon:

alt-f2 and then type r and hit enter

Hi gigs94,
thank you very much! But for me it works weird when I just put that one line before the condition so I recommend to completely comment out (or delete) these two lines:

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        if (counter == 4)
            return;

Now it works as I think it should works.

[gigs94]

Well, I don't like it to "blink" and the previous behavior that I had was that it blinked several times and then stopped but kept the window tab illuminated. That's what the code does that I posted. Yours will just blink forever, but now people that want to can change it either way

[JakubRimal]

Yes, you are right. Now everyone can choose.